Examples
The subject complement is in bold in the following examples:
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- The lake was a tranquil pool.
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Here was is a linking verb (an inflected form of be) that equates the predicate nominative phrase a tranquil pool, with head noun pool, to the subject the lake (with head noun lake).
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- The lake is tranquil.
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In this example tranquil is a predicative adjective linked through the verb is (another inflected form of be) to the subject the lake.
An example in which the subject complement is a dependent clause is:
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- That is what my point is.
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