Which word in the sentence is a predicate adjective? Please explain why along with the answer.
A ripe melon should be heavy and should have a sweet and pleasant smell.
A. pleasant
B. heavy
C. smell
D. sweet
A ripe melon should be heavy and should have a sweet and pleasant smell.
A. pleasant
B. heavy
C. smell
D. sweet
1 Answer
Jun 3, 2018
B.
Explanation:
This is a compound sentence there are two predicates:
"should be" and "should have"
"Should be" is a state of being verbal predicate.
Heavy describes what it "should be", so heavy is a predicate adjective.
"Should have" is not a state of being, so "have" has an object, not a predicate adjective.
I have a bike.
What do I have? A bike. The bike is the object not a descriptor of have.
So in this sentence the object of the sentence is smell and sweet and pleasant are adjectives that describe the smell.