(in systemic grammar) the part of a sentence or clause containing the verbal group; one of the four or five major components into which clauses can be divided, the others being subject, object,adjunct, and (in some versions of the grammar) complement
Examples of 'predicator' in a sentence
predicator
The analysis revealed the verbal group as containing the finite and the predicator.
Taofeek Olaiwola Dalamu 2019, 'Halliday's Mood System: A Scorecard of Literacy in the English Grammar in an L2 Situation/ O sistema de modo de Halliday: um quadro de resultados sobre o conhecimento dagramática da língua inglesa como L2', Revista de Estudos da Linguagemhttp://periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/relin/article/view/13175. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)