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Re: terminology

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John B. Matthews schrieb:
> The combination of a verb plus a noun phrase makes me think of a
> grammatical predicate
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate_(grammar)>,
>
> but predicate can also mean the result of evaluating a logical
> expression.

In the SVO pattern, the predicate (traditional,
Aristotele) is more or less the VO part.

+---------------- Sentence ----------------+
|                                          |
java.lang.System.out . print    ( 2        )
|                    |          |          |
+---- Subject -------+- Verb ---+- Object -+
                      |                     |
                      +----- Predicate -----+

What you learn in school is:
The predicate is one of the two main parts of
a sentence (the other being the subject, which
the predicate modifies). The predicate must
contain a verb (watch out Mordor), and the
verb requires, permits, or precludes other
sentence elements to complete the predicate.

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