Understanding Predicates in Linguistics

In contrast to names, predicates which are descriptive words like blue , coughs, skyscraper which can clydenote things that they do describe . Most predicates are nouns, adjectives and verbs, and their denorationsare the sets of things they apply to or are true of, for example: ❖ word (noun): dog ❖ denotarionof dog = the set of dogs ❖ word (adjective): brown ❖ denotation of brown = the set of brown things ❖ word (verb): grin ❖ denotarionof grin = the set of creatures that grin