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hanygeorge38 · Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 90 Location: egypt

hello teachers

could you please tell me the defference bettween

(adjectives and predicate adjectives)

please as simply as possible ?

Thanks in advance
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hany

LucentShade · Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 542 Location: Nebraska, USA

Hmm, I had to go and look this one up.

I'll give you a quote from the website I checked:

A predicate adjective is an adjective appearing in the predicate of a sentence, following a linking verb and modifying the subject of the sentence: The building is -new-. I feel -uncomfortable-.

In other words, a predicate adjective is one that comes after a verb, but still modifies the main subject. In the sentence, "The new building is great," "new" is a standard adjective, as it comes before the verb (it appears in the "subject" part of the sentence), and "great" is a predicate adjective, as it appears after the verb--in the predicate part of the sentence.