predicate

(noun)

The part of the sentence (or clause) that states something about the subject or the object of the sentence.

Related Terms

Examples of predicate in the following topics:

  • Subject and Predicate

  • Predicate Nouns

  • Components of a Sentence

    • The action is the predicate, and the person (or thing) doing it is the subject.
    • The predicate explains the action of the sentence.
    • There are more complex definitions of "predicate."
    • Sometimes "predicate" can simply mean "everything except the subject."
    • Compound predicate: He ran to the house and knocked on the door.

  • Introduction to Provisioning

    • Max Weber (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 1904-05) and Robert Tawney (Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, 1926) both hypothesize that the rise of the capitalist system was predicated on protestant beliefs.

  • Vending Machines

    • The success of such machines is predicated on the assumption that the customer will be honest (hence the nickname "honor box"), and need only one copy.

  • Understanding Social Interaction

    • The United States Congress is an example of a social institution that is clearly predicated upon social interactions.

  • Unclassified and Uncultured Bacteria

    • While there are several molecular tools that allow us to classify or distinguish different bacterial species, this is predicated on obtaining uni-species cultures of a given bacteria.

  • Adjectives

    • They are most frequently used as a modifier placed right after a noun or as a predicate to a verb.

  • Employee Transfers

    • It is predicated on the original department's ability to absorb the loss of that employee as well as the level of need in the new department.

  • Properties of Indifference Curves

    • The concept of an indifference curve is predicated on the idea that a given consumer has rational preferences in regard to the purchase of groupings of goods, with a series of key properties that define the process of mapping these curves: