Predicative vs Null - What's the difference?
predicative | null |
(grammar, of an adjectival or nominal) Used after a verb, as a predicate;
(grammar) An element of the predicate of a sentence which supplements the subject or object by means of the verb. Predicatives may be nominal or adjectival.
; Examples
* He seems nice.''''' (adjectival ' predicative of the subject)
* Bob is a postman'''.'' (nominal ' predicative of the subject)
* We painted the door white'''.'' (adjectival ' predicative of the object)
* They elected him president'''.'' (nominal ' predicative of the object)
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between predicative and null
is that predicative is (grammar) an element of the predicate of a sentence which supplements the subject or object by means of the verb predicatives may be nominal or adjectival while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective predicative
is (grammar|of an adjectival or nominal) used after a verb, as a predicate;.predicative
English
Alternative forms
* (dated)Adjective
(-)- In the sentence, ‘This house is big’, ‘big’ is predicative , whereas in ‘This is a big house’, it is attributive.
Antonyms
* attributiveDerived terms
* predicatively * predicative adjectiveNoun
(en noun)null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.