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.
a predictive adjective
Grateful can be a predicate adjective. Example: I am grateful. A predicate adjective follows a linking verb and describes the subject. "Am" is the linking verb, "grateful" is the predicate adjective, and "I" is the subject.
There is no predicate adjective in that sentence.
Helpless is the predicate adjective.
Any adjective can be used as a predicate adjective, an adjective that follows a linking verb. Examples: The noisy boy will arrive soon. (adjective) The boy is noisy. (predicate adjective)
Yes because it can describe a noun--a popular person.
Mountain is a predicate noun.
A predicate adjective is an adjective that follows a linking verb and describes the subject of the sentence. For example, in the sentence "The flowers are beautiful," "beautiful" is the predicate adjective. A predicate nominative, on the other hand, is a noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and renames the subject. In the sentence "She is a teacher," "teacher" is the predicate nominative.
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.
no, it is a Predicate Noun.
The test was long.A predicate adjective modifies or describes the subject.The movie was fun and interesting.Fun and interesting describe the movie making them the predicate adjective.
The verb that joins a subject to a predicate noun or a predicate adjective is called a linking verb.A linking verb is a verb that acts as an equal sign, the subject is or becomes the object.A predicate noun or a predicate adjective is a subject complement.Example subject complements:Mary is my sister. (Mary = sister, predicate noun)Mary's feet got wet. (feet = wet, predicate adjective)