作表语的，谓语性的（例如 asleep，用于 be、become、get、seem、look 等动词后；与 attributive 相对）coming after a verb such asbe, become, get, seem, look . Many adjectives, for exampleold can be either predicative as inThe man is very old , or attributive as inan old man . Some, likeasleep , can only be predicative .