Predicate nominative: writer and translator (These are the other nouns naming Davida Malo.)Ģ.
Davida Malo was a writer and translator for the Hawaiian Court.
While an action verb with a direct object is a transitive verb, a linking verb is called an intransitive verb.ġ. A predicate nominative is not a direct object, because it does not receive the action of the verb.Ī linking verb, by definition, has no action therefore it cannot be followed by a direct object. It is called a "predicate nominative" because it is a noun in the predicate. A predicate nominative is a noun that follows a linking verb and renames the subject.
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