Introducing English Linguistics

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Chomsky’s theories 
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The next two examples provide illustrations of subject complements
occurring with the linking verbs seems and  appears. Because the subject
complements are adjectives, they describe the subjects.
The government hopes that at some point the Liberation Front can be
persuaded to accept some form of autonomy short of independence, but
that
seems 
unlikely in the foreseeable future. 
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The second of the paired versions of each signature
appears 
somewhat
different. 
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A similar relationship exists with object complements, which describe or
name the object rather than the subject. However, while a subject and
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subject complement are linked by a predicator, the object and object com-
plement are related by an implied predicator. For instance, in the example
below, the object complement infectious describes the direct object, her own
enthusiasm for the subject:
She has made her own enthusiasm for the subject 
infectious. 
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Because a copular relationship exists between the two functions, the two