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Fixit86 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Subject complement

is a subject complement part of the noun phrase?

  

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fixit86 is a subject complement part of the noun phrase? Your question does not make sense. A subject complement can be a noun phrase.

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fixit86

is a subject complement part of the noun phrase?

Your question does not make sense.

A subject complement can be a noun phrase.

He is a good man. "Good man" is a noun phrase. Its function in the sentence is "subject complement."

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I think I know what you mean.

Consider this example:

My friend Ed is a fine teacher.

"A fine teacher" is a noun phrase functioning as subject complement.

Although it refers to the subject "my friend Ed", a noun phrase, it is not part of it but a separate constituent functioning as complement of the verb "is".

Is that what you meant?