predicate adjective

noun

, Grammar.

an adjective used in the predicate, especially with a copulative verb and attributive to the subject, as in He is dead, or attributive to the direct object, as in It made him sick.

First recorded in 1880–85

In some of these examples, the predicate adjective has a modifier.

A Subjective Predicate Adjective is an adjective that completes the verb and modifies the subject.

A predicate adjective completes the meaning of the predicate verb, but describes or limits the subject.

In the second, the participle drenched expresses mere condition, and is therefore a predicate adjective.

The past participle is often used as a predicate adjective expressing state or condition.

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