predicative oblique

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Expression

Expression
predicative oblique

  1. (grammar) (semantics) A predicative oblique is a predicative element that occurs after the preposition as or for.
    In the clause He came across as a sane person, the noun phrase a sane person functions as predicative oblique of the verb come.


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