predicate noun

American  

noun

Grammar.

1. a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.

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Example Sentences

While the predicate noun is plural, the subject, “export,” is singular, so it needs a singular verb.

From New York Times

Some intransitive verbs require a predicate noun or pronoun in the nominative case, or an adjective, to complete their meaning.

From Project Gutenberg

Note 3.—The verb to be is followed by the nominative case, as in Mn.E.; but when the predicate noun is plural, and the subject a neuter pronoun in the singular, the verb agrees in number with the predicate noun.

From Project Gutenberg

Do not use a when or where clause as a predicate noun.

From Project Gutenberg

A verb should agree in number with the subject, not with a predicate noun.

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