单词 | subject complement |
释义 | subject complement in American Englishnoun Grammar a word or a group of words, usually functioning as an adjective or noun, that is used in the predicate following a copula and describes or is identified with the subject of the sentence, as sleepy in The travelers became sleepy Also called: subjective complement Word origin [1935–40]English Easy Learning GrammarComplementsSome verbs such as be, become, seem, do not have an object but a complement. The subject complement is a word or phrase that tells us more about the subject. Alan ... Read more |
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