Timeline for Is the type of subject complement a predicate nominative?
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| Dec 15, 2021 at 15:29 | comment | added | Lambie | As I said, one can view "at the park" as the subject. Adding a tag, however, changes the discourse. The normal order here in spoken English would be: Where she grabbed my attention is at the park. Question: Is at the park where she grabbed my attention? But it makes no difference since they both mean the same thing. However, few speakers start sentences with a prepositional phrase. The sentences are basically bi-valent. | |
| Dec 15, 2021 at 15:24 | comment | added | BillJ | That is a completely confused and wrong analysis. There is no inversion. The subject is the PP "at the park", and "where she grabbed by attention" is predicative complement. Two tests prove that the PP is subject: (1) we could have an interrogative tag, "isn't it?", where "it" is anaphoric to "at the park", showing that the latter is subject; (2) apply the interrogative test for subjects: the interrogative of "At the park is where she grabbed my attention" is "Is at the park the place where she grabbed my attention? with "at the park" in the distinctive subject position following the verb. | |
| Dec 14, 2021 at 6:09 | vote | accept | Maria Rodriguez | ||
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| Dec 13, 2021 at 15:57 | history | answered | Lambie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |