Another way of modifying nouns or the subject of a sentence is through complementation. Although some sentences are complete with only a subject and predicate, many others need something else to complete their meaning. A complement is a word or group of words that describes or renames a subject, an object, or a verb.
A subject complement is a noun, pronoun, or adjective that appears with a linking verb and tells something about the subject of the sentence. In the sentence given, what is the subject complement?
The subject complement here is underlined for you.
Camino Real is a long road along the Katagayahan hills. Nagrebcan is popular among tourists.
In the sentences above, road and popular are both subject complements. There are two types of subject complements: the noun complement and the adjective complement. Which are the noun complement and the adjective complement in the examples given?
In completing the sample sentences given, verbs are used to connect the noun complement and adjective complement. This are called linking verbs. Linking verbs connect a word at or near the beginning of sentence with a word at or near the end. The most common linking verbs are the different forms of the verb be.
