These verbs precede nouns or adjectives in a sentence, which become predicate nouns and predicate adjectives similar to those that function with a linking verb.
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?????? is a predicate noun in the nominative, showing case agreement with an understood and omitted pronoun ( coreferential pro i and PRO i ).
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Due to this reason and because the category adjective is absent and primarily replaced by stative verbs, which also accommodate syntactic objects, it becomes very difficult to establish a special class of predicate noun clauses that is not identical in nearly every way to the well-motivated class of object noun clauses.