D. Jerry looks distainfully at the pile of laundry.
Distainfully describes the predicate.
B. jerry looks ill today
Yes because it can describe a noun--a popular person.
No. Glow is a verb. The word glowing can be used as an adjective.
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Without a complete sentence, clerk is just a word. More specifically, it's a noun and can't be used as a predicate adjective. Because clerk is a noun, it can be used as a predicate nominative. Example: Barbara is a clerk.
The word "lush" can function as both an adjective and a noun, but it is not commonly used as an adverb or predicate. As an adjective, it describes something that is very luxurious, abundant, or green. As a noun, it refers to a person who drinks excessively.
A predicate nominative or a predicate adjectiverestates a noun following a linking verb or the object of a verb, telling something about the noun. The word 'tall' could be a predicate adjective or a predicate noun, depending on how it's used in a sentence. Examples:Predicate nominative: The size I need is a tall. (the noun tall is renaming the noun size)Predicate adjective: My brother is very tall. (the adjective tall is renaming the noun brother)
The word "cute" in the following sentence: He is cute. A predicate adjective is just an adjective in the predicate of a sentence, or following a verb.
The word 'fun' is both a noun and an adjective.In the given sentence the word 'fun' can be said to be either a predicate nominative or a predicate adjective.
No. The noun team is used with other nouns as a noun adjunct (e.g. team leader, team sport). That it cannot be used as a predicate adjective supports this. Yet many dictionaries show it as an adjective for the term team effort.In the sentence "The athletes were a team" the word team is a predicate nominative, not an adjective.
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Big is a predicate adjective. Any word on the other side of the word is or its equivalent when the word is does not happen to be used as a helping verb is either a predicate nominative (noun) or adjective. Jane is a girl. Girl is a noun. Jane is pretty. Pretty is an adjective. (That is one quick way to tell if a word is an adjective!
Disdainfully is the predicate adjective. The adjective describes how Jerry looks at the pile of laundry and who can blame him.