will predicate
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future tenseof predicate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
predicatenoun(in many languages, such as English) one of the two main parts of a sentence, containing the verb and any of its objects, modifiers, or other completions, and generally expressing an action, state, or condition: for example, got here quickly in Larry got here quickly, or ate a cookie in I ate a cookie, or slept in The exhausted student slept.
Example Sentences
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They will predicate peace, that the people may be tractable to them; but a religion altogether pacific is the fomenter of wars and the nurse of crimes, alluring Sloth from within and Violence from afar.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
I should deem it a disgrace to be cast away in some society I could name, although I will predicate, as we say in America, nothing on their absence.
From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by James Fenimore Cooper