Examples of 'predicate' in a sentence

Meaning of "predicate"

Predicate is a grammatical term that refers to part of a sentence that provides information about the subject. It includes the verb and other words that describe the action or state of the subject
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  • The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
  • A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.
  • An operator or function that returns either true or false.
  • Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.

How to use "predicate" in a sentence

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Expansion of predicate offences to include foreign corruption.
Legislation on countering specific forms of predicate crime.
The money laundering predicate offences are as follows.
The predicate complement may be words or clauses.
This sentence has a predicate but no subject.
And a predicate in terms of the bound variable.
A proposition consists of a predicate followed by its arguments.
A predicate is a function that returns a boolean value.
A verb signifies the predicate of the sentence.
The predicate is a propositional function of one variable.
A head consists of a predicate name and arguments.
The predicate is supplied to the operator as a delegate.
A verb is part of the predicate of a sentence or clause.
The predicate defines the nouns role in being.
All corruption offences are considered predicate offences.

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The notion of predicate entrenchment is not required.
All bribery offences are enumerated as predicate offences.
Only the predicate has to be expressed overtly.
Identifies the subject and predicate in a sentence.
A predicate can have zero or more arguments.
Identifies the subject and predicate of a sentence.
Classical predicate logic and empty domains.
These are marked by pronominal markers on the predicate.
A subject and a predicate together make up a clause.
Such a formula may be called a predicate instead.
This predicate returns true if x is in the choices.
Most clauses consist of a predicate and a subject.
Not every predicate will refer to a property.
Therefore we must conclude that w is not a predicate.
A predicate consists of a head and a number of arguments.
The unmarked constituent order is predicate initial.
The range of predicate offences has been enlarged.
That enclitic is usually after the predicate.
The predicate here does all the work.
Adjectives can also serve as predicate modifiers.
A violent predicate felon working on his second strike.
But it is also definitely a predicate over him.
Tax crimes as predicate offences for money laundering.
A particularly common type of functor is the predicate.
The head of a verbal predicate is the verb.
Typically a sentence contains a subject and predicate.
The main word in the predicate is a verb.
Conflicting evidence to arrive at the factual predicate.
Today we are going to talk about predicates and predicate nominatives.
Tag must come before qualifying predicate.
It seems to predicate on opportunity and familiarity.
Back in the day we called it the predicate.
A positional predicate must evaluate to a single numeric value.
This is also called the complete predicate.
The arguments of a predicate are semantically dependent on that predicate.

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