A predicator is the verb in its functional relation to the clause . It is comparable to the grammatical relations of subject and object .

The term predicator can be used to refer to the verbal element in Subject-Ver b-Object constructions, that is, Subject-Predicator-Object. This avoids the confusion of using verb to refer to both a form and a function.

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