<h1>Predicative Adjectives</h1>,

In order to begin, we do must understand what predicative adjectives are. Its definition would be as follows:

An adjective located in the phrase after a linking verb and not a noun; remember that a linking verb (tipical examples are verbs as be, become and seem) it is not used to express any action made by the subject, but to link the subject with an extra information about the subject.

Also  predicative adjective is widely known as subject complement.

Given that is complementing information about our subject in the phrase.

So as to detect a predicative adjective, we just need to find the linking verb after which is located :

The house is big.

Verb “to be” acts as linking verb and connects the subject, in this case “house”, to our predicative adjective “big” (an additional information about the subject).

Your father seems angry.

Linking verb: to seem , predicative adjective/subject complement: angry.

There are many adjectives that only can be used as predicative adjectives, and begin by –a:

afloat, afraid, alight, alike, alive, ashamed, asleep and awake.

To finish, and check that you really did understand this grammar point, let’s going to take a look at the next phrase,¿ can you identify at first sight any mistake?.

He is an alive musician.

Maybe if we change the predicative adjective  “alive” by another attributive adjective as “living”…:

He is a living musician.

In this case the adjective is correctly placed (though denote is an attributive and not a predicative in this example).

If we had wanted include a predicative adjective, then we would have changed compulsory the order of the adjective into the phrase:

The musician is still alive.