predicative oblique

Expression

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Expression
predicative oblique

  1. (grammar) (semantics) A predicative oblique is a predicative element that occurs after the preposition as or for.
    In the clause He came across as a sane person, the noun phrase a sane person functions as predicative oblique of the verb come.


Grammar (edit)
parts of speech noun - verb - adjective - adnoun - adverb - determinative/determiner - article - participle - pronoun - conjunction - preposition - interjection
grammatical functions head - dependent - subject - predicate - predicator - object - complement - predicative complement - predicative adjunct - predicative oblique - appositive oblique - modifier - supplement- adjunct - determiner/specifier
clauses main clause - dependent clause - subordinate clause - relative clause