Nominal Predicate
Link Verb: |
Link Verb |
Predicative (Nominal) part |
1) of being: to be to sound to smell to feel to look to taste to seem |
She was (Link verb – to be in the Past Simple Tense)
She sounded (Link verb – to sound in the Past Simple Tense) He is feeling (Link verb – to feel in the Present Continuous Tense)
He will be (Link verb – to be in the Future Simple Tense) |
nice ( it’s expressed by an adjective in the positive degree).
happy (it’s expressed by an adjective in the positive degree). fine (it’s expressed by an adjective in the positive degree).
20 (it’s expressed by a cardinal numeral). |
2) of becoming: to become to turn to get to go to grow |
He will become (Link verb – to become in the Future Simple Tense) It is getting (Link verb – to get in the Present Continuous Tense)
He turned (Link verb – to turn in the Past Simple Tense) He is growing (Link verb – to grow in the Present Continuous Tense) |
a teacher (it’s expressed by a common noun in a common case). dark (it’s expressed by an adjective in a positive degree).
pale (it’s expressed by an adjective in the positive degree). older (it’s expressed by an adjective in the comparative degree). |
3) of remaining: to remain |
She remains (Link verb – to remain in the Present Simple Tense) |
a woman (it’s expressed by a common noun in the common case). |
Примеры разбора предложений.
1.He seemed clever.
According to the purpose of utterance it is a declarative, affirmative sentence.
According to the structure it is a simple, 2-member, extended, complete sentence.
The subject “he”, it is expressed by a personal pronoun in the 3rd person, singular in the nominative case;
The predicate “seemed clever”, it is a compound nominal predicate, it consists of 2 parts : link verb and predicative part; link verb of being “to seem” in the past simple tense, the active voice, the indicative mood, and the predicative part “clever” is expressed by an adjective in the positive degree.
2.Her friend was cooking lunch at 2 yesterday.
According to the purpose of utterance, it is a declarative, affirmative sentence.
According to the structure, it is a simple, 2-member, extended, complete sentence.
The subject is “friend”, it is expressed by a common noun in the common case;
The predicate is “was cooking”, it is a simple verbal predicate, it is expressed by the verb “to cook” in the past continuous tense, the active voice, the indicative mood;
The object is “lunch”, it is expressed by a common noun in the common case;
The adverbial modifier of time “at 2 yesterday” is expressed by a prepositional phrase.