This page gives a 4-step process for identifying sentence types. We've already gone over "simple sentences" (Subject/Verb); "predicate nominatives" (Subject/Linking Verb(s)/Predicate Nominative); "direct objects" (Subject/Verb/Direct Object).
The new ones are:
- Predicate Adjective
- Indirect Object.
Example of Predicate Adjective.
The squirrels have gotten very fat.
(Squirrels do not equal "fat" so "fat" is not a predicate nominative -- it's not another name for the squirrels. A predicate nominative sentence would be:
The squirrels are called Vail, Barkley and Twitch
"Fat" says something about the squirrels though -- it describes them, so it is an adjective. Since the whole sentence is about them being fat, "fat" is what is "predicated" of the squirrels).
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