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What do you call a sentence part that is complemented with a complementary infinitive?
What does the complementary infinitive complement?
e.g. the "I am able" in:
>I am able to read.
Or the "possumus" in:
>Possumus ineptire.
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You call it a predicate? Is this a joke?
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But the "I am" and "possumus" are both subject and predicate.
Isn't there another term? Like... "complemented"... something? Does the complementary infinitive just complement the main verb of a sentence or the whole meaning of the sentence?
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> I am able to read.
'Able to read' complements the subject, 'I', and so is a 'subject complement'.
> We can be silly
Same thing: 'ineptire' complements the subject, 'we', so is a subject complement.
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