1. There are three main groups of predicates: attitudinal, enabling/preventing, and perceptual.
2. Attitudinal predicates express feelings like "I hate this music" using verbs or adjectives.
3. Enabling predicates make something possible like "we allowed the car to pass" while preventing predicates cause something not to occur like "I kept the ball from rolling away".
4. Perceptual predicates express sensations through the five senses like "Alice heard a funny song" using sensory verbs.
1. There are three main groups of predicates: attitudinal, enabling/preventing, and perceptual.
2. Attitudinal predicates express feelings like "I hate this music" using verbs or adjectives.
3. Enabling predicates make something possible like "we allowed the car to pass" while preventing predicates cause something not to occur like "I kept the ball from rolling away".
4. Perceptual predicates express sensations through the five senses like "Alice heard a funny song" using sensory verbs.
1. There are three main groups of predicates: attitudinal, enabling/preventing, and perceptual.
2. Attitudinal predicates express feelings like "I hate this music" using verbs or adjectives.
3. Enabling predicates make something possible like "we allowed the car to pass" while preventing predicates cause something not to occur like "I kept the ball from rolling away".
4. Perceptual predicates express sensations through the five senses like "Alice heard a funny song" using sensory verbs.
1. There are three main groups of predicates: attitudinal, enabling/preventing, and perceptual.
2. Attitudinal predicates express feelings like "I hate this music" using verbs or adjectives.
3. Enabling predicates make something possible like "we allowed the car to pass" while preventing predicates cause something not to occur like "I kept the ball from rolling away".
4. Perceptual predicates express sensations through the five senses like "Alice heard a funny song" using sensory verbs.
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A VARIETY OF PREDICATES
According to Kreidler (1998: 251), there are three groups of predicates, namely:
1. Attitudinal predicates: express mental.
It means that people have about their past experiences and possible future and general feelings
about likes, dislikes and preferences. Attitudinal predicate is a verb or adjective that expresses
the feelings of the subject. For example: I hate this music
“Hate” is kind of expression of dislikes to something.
2. Enabling and preventing: express actions that cause something to be done, enables someone to act,
or prevents someone from acting.
An enabling predicate is a verb or an adjective which tells that the following predication is made
possible. For example: we allowed the car to pass. “Allowed” is an enabling predicate by using
of authority. The subject “we” makes possible for something (“car”) to do something (“pass”).
A preventing predicate is a verb which states that an agent causes the non-occurrence of the
predication. For example: I kept the ball from rolling away. “Kept” is a preventing predicate by
using of effort.
3. Perceptual predicates: express the sensations.
It is also called “sensory verbs”, express the sensations through five hands. For example: Alice
heard a funny song. “Heard” is a perceptual predicate by using sensory of ear.
A VARIETY OF PREDICATES
Attitudinal predicates
An attitudinal predicate is a verb or adjective that expresses the feelings of the subject: I hate this music, I’m fond of swimming. In the first six types (A-F) the subject of the sentences is the affected and what affects is a specific predication, a potential act.
- intent regarding one’s own possible performance
Jenkins intends to withdraw from the race. —— Verbs: aim, mean, intend Intend affected S-theme jenkins agent predicate Jenkins withdraw… Aspect: prospective
- mental rehearsing of possible performance
Jenkins considered withdrawing from the race.
Verbs: consider, contemplate
Enabling and preventing
An enabling predicate is a verb or adjective which tells that the following predication is made possible: we allowed the car pass. A preventing is a verb which states that an agent causes the non-occurrence of the predication that follows: I kept the ball from rolling way. The opposite of enabling is preventing, disenabling. Here three types can be recognized; a preventing by use of authority, preventing through effort, and preventing through speech.
Perceptual verbs also called sensory verbs, the meaning of perceptual verbs is a verb that expresses the activity of any of the five senses. The difference between gerund clause and infinitive clause is clear with perceptual verbs(but not necessarily with other kinds of verbs). English and perhaps not just English makes more distinctions regarding vision than hearing, and more about hearing than feeling, tasting, or smelling
