{"id":125,"date":"2017-10-03T16:33:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T16:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/?p=125"},"modified":"2019-06-25T16:30:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T16:30:52","slug":"predicate-nouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/predicate-nouns\/","title":{"rendered":"English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong>predicate noun<\/strong> is a noun connected to the subject of the sentence by a<strong> linking verb<\/strong>. A <strong>linking verb<\/strong> is a verb that connects words that are the equivalent of each other. In other words, the subject is linked to another noun, the&nbsp;<strong>predicate noun<\/strong>, by means of the <strong>linking verb<\/strong>. It can help to use an equal sign (=) to visualize the connection between the predicate noun and the subject.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ryan was a banker. (Ryan=banker.&nbsp;<em>Was<\/em> is the linking verb.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Study the following examples and try to identify the <strong>predicate nouns<\/strong>&nbsp;and the <strong>linking verbs<\/strong>. The first sentence is explained for you.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sheila is president of the company. (<strong>Linking verb<\/strong>: <em>is<\/em>. <strong>Predicate noun<\/strong>: <em>president<\/em>. Sheila = president)<\/li><li>This park is the best spot to relax in the entire city.\u00a0 <\/li><li>The restaurant became a popular destination. <\/li><li>They are professors.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A predicate noun is a noun connected to the subject of the sentence by a linking verb. A linking verb is a verb that connects words that are the equivalent of each other. In other words, the subject is linked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/predicate-nouns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-predicate-nouns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/grammar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}