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Question
Study the underlined Predicate given below and note the difference:
They are hungry.
Solution
Verb - are
Complement - hungry
Explanation: The verb (are) is incomplete without the word that follows i.e. hungry. So 'hungry' is a complement of the verb 'are'.
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