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The predicate in traditional grammar is the second part of a clause or sentence, the first being the subject.[1] A predicate completes an idea about the subject, such as what it does or what it is like.[2][3]
The predicate provides information about the subject.
The subject NP is shown in green, and the predicate VP in blue.
There is a quite different theory of sentence structure, called dependency structure grammar. This puts the finite verb (= conjugated verb) as the root of all sentence structure. It rejects the binary NP-VP division.
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