predicative

  1. Adjective.  (context, grammar) Used after a verb, as a predicate; (non-gloss definition, contrasted with attributive.) .
  2. Noun.  (context, grammar) An element of the predicate of a sentence which supplements the subject or object by means of the verb. Predicatives may be nominal or adjectival.

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