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predicate

Traditionally, one of the two main parts of a sentence or clause, the other being the subject. In the sentence ‘The chicken crossed the road’, ‘the chicken’ is the subject and ‘crossed the road’ is the predicate. In the sentence ‘Parents make their children happy’, ‘parents’ is the subject and ‘make their children happy’ is the predicate.



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When one thing is predicated of another, all that which is predicable of the predicate will be predicable also of the subject.
The Celt in all his variants from Builth to Ballyhoo, His mental processes are plain--one knows what he will do, And can logically predicate his finish by his start: But the English--ah, the English
"Granting the continuity of life," said he, in his most didactic manner, "none of us can predicate what opportunities of observation one may have from what we may call the spirit plane to the plane of matter.
 
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