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subject complement

noun

Etymology

From subject + complement.

  1. derived from complēmentum
  2. inherited from complement
  3. compounded as subject complement — “subject + complement”

Definitions

  1. A complement which is coupled to a subject.

    • In the sentence "That is a flying car!", 'that' is the subject and 'flying car' is the subject complement.
    • In the sentence "That house seems haunted!", 'that house' is the subject and 'haunted' is the subject complement (in this case an adjective).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for subject complement. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA