Definition
A subject complement is a complement that is used to predicate a description of the subject of a clause.
Examples
(English)
- Ambrose was bishop.
- Ambrose was holy.
Kinds
More specific concepts within subject complement.
Sources 4
- Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, and Svartvik 1985, 55, 737, 742
- Crystal 1985, 60
- Hartmann and Stork 1972, 182
- Mish 1991, 926