subjective complement

noun

1. subject complement.

Word History and Origins

Origin of subjective complement¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

Such a noun is in the nominative case, and is called a predicate nominative, or a subjective complement; as, Noun: Mr. Brown is the manager.

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He thus adds to the mass M of mundane phenomena, independent of his subjectivity, the subjective complement x, which makes of the whole an utterly black picture illumined by no gleam of good.

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