Timeline for Does "happy" function as a predicate adjective in "He seems to be happy"?
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| Dec 19, 2023 at 16:26 | comment | added | BillJ | Note that "she" is a raised subject because the verb that it relates to syntactically is higher in the constituent structure than the one it relates to semantically. | |
| Dec 19, 2023 at 16:15 | comment | added | BillJ | "She seems to like money" is a catenative construction where "seems" is the catenative verb with the subordinate clause "to like money" functioning as its catenative complement. In the subordinate clause "money" is the object of "like". | |
| Dec 19, 2023 at 7:40 | comment | added | BillJ | Yes, it's PC of "be" in the clause "to be happy", with "he" is the predicand. The bracketing is "He seems [to be happy]". | |
| Dec 19, 2023 at 1:20 | answer | added | herisson | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 19, 2023 at 0:30 | comment | added | Tinfoil Hat | No, seems is not functioning as a linking verb in (2). | |
| Dec 18, 2023 at 22:55 | comment | added | Lambie | seem + a to-infinitive: dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/seem | |
| Dec 18, 2023 at 22:47 | history | edited | Laurel♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 18, 2023 at 22:40 | history | asked | cookie234 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |