Predicate adjectives agree with the relevant noun in gender and number, and are in the nominative case, unless the subject is unspecified ( as in some infinitive phrases ), in which case the adjective takes the ( masculine / neuter ) instrumental form ( for example, " by mdrym ", " to be wise ", although the nominative is used if the logical subject is specified ).
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Some languages form the negative of existential clauses in an irregular way; for example, in Russian, 5ABL " yest " ( " there is / are " ) is used in affirmative existential clauses ( in the present tense ), whereas the negative equivalent is = 5B " nyet " ( " there is / are not " ), used with the logical subject in the genitive case.
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"Allmovie " noted " a ripping yarn "; and " Britmovie " noted, " a great work of popular entertainment in its own era, Captain Marryat s novel is a logical subject for the mass audience that attends films, " but concluded, " the film s budget was as limited as other British movies of the period, and most of it was shot at the Ealing Studios in London.
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:There appears to be an ultimate notion of assertion, given by the verb, which is lost as soon as we substitute a verbal noun, and is lost when the proposition in question is made the subject of some other proposition . . . . Thus the contradiction which was to have been avoided, of an entity which cannot be made a logical subject, appears to have here become inevitable.
