english ass. 7/7/2014 attributive an ATTRIBUTIVE is a word or phrase within a noun phrase that modifies the head noun. predicative There are two competing notions of the predicate in theories of grammar.[1] The first concerns traditional grammar, which tends to view a predicate as one of two main parts of a sentence, the other part being the subject; the purpose of the predicate is to complete an idea about the subject, such as what it does or what it is like. The second derives from work in predicate calculus (predicate logic, first order logic) and is prominent in modern theories of syntax and grammar post-positive A post-positive or postpositive describes an adjective (called a post-positive adjective) or adjectival phrase that appears, within the same clause, after the noun that it modifies SUBSTANTIVE Starting with old Latin grammars, many European languages use some form of the word SUBSTANTIVE as the basic term for noun (for example, Spanish sustantivo, noun). Nouns in the dictionaries of such languages are demarked by the abbreviation s. or sb. instead of n, which may be used for proper nouns instead. This corresponds to those grammars in which nouns and adjectives phase into each other in more areas than, for example, the English term predicate adjective entails. In French and Spanish, for example, adjectives frequently act as nouns referring to people who have the characteristics of the adjective.
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