PREDICATIVE ADJUNCTS
A predicative adjunct tells you something about two other sentence elements, those being:
- The predicate
- The subject or the object
Usually a predicative adjunct will consist out of an adjective, but it may also consist out of a noun or a prepositional group/
Examples:
- De leden van het team vonden hem een klier.
The members of the team thought him to be a pain in the neck.
(een klier says something about vonden (predicate) and hem (object)) - Hij stampte de appels tot moes.
He mashed the apples to mash. (tot moes says something about stampte (predicate) and de appels (object)) - Drijfnat kwam hij gisteren thuis.
He came home extremely wet the other day
(drijfnat says something about kwam (predicate) and hij (subject))