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Complement (linguistics)

For other uses in linguistics, see Complement (disambiguation) § Grammar and linguistics.
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In grammar, a complement is a word, phrase, or clause that is necessary to complete the meaning of a given expression.[1][2] Complements are often also arguments (expressions that help complete the meaning of a predicate).

  1. ^ See Crystal (1997:75).
  2. ^ See Matthews (1981:142f.) and Huddleston (1988:note 2) for good overviews of the different uses of the term complement.

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