Lec 5

• Predicator does not belong to any of the referring expressions and which, makes the most specific contribution to the meaning of the sentence
• is any word (or sequence of words) which (in a given single sense) can function as the predicator of a sentence.

  predicate
• which is not a possible predicator?

  conjunctions
• Which is a possible predicator?

  adjectives
• The bank is between the Main road and the hospital.

  The degree of the predicate in this sentence is:?

  three-place predicate
• My sister prepared the table

  the arguments in this sentence are?

  my sister/the table
• The children eat pizza every weekend

  the predicator in this sentence is ?

  eat