Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Hi Jack,
> Thank you for your helpful responses.  I had a follow up question.  Liz said 
> that a predicate adjective did not need to agred with the subject in terms of 
> the definite article.  Do not predicate adjectives also generally occur 
> before the noun they are modifying?  Thanks again.
>   

HH: You may be thinking of an attributive adjective. A predicate 
adjective predicates something about the subject but is in the verbal 
part of the sentence (here the verb is understood, however).

Yours,
Harold Holmyard