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sarra commented on the word attribute complement
'When a noun or an adjective explaining or modifying the subject is used to complete the predicate, it is called an attribute complement. … John Smith is an author. The apple is sweet. … Verbs that require attribute complements are called copulative verbs…'
— Henry Wyman Holmes, Composition and Rhetoric, p340
November 2, 2009