The ball appeared round . Ms. Carswell is a lawyer . Synthetic verb form A multi-part verb form expressing one of a variety of possible degrees of pastness, futurity, completeness, habitualness, determination, uncertainty or the like. I should have been trying to please them, but I forgot. A word which specifies the action or condition in which the subject of a sentence participates.
Predicates comprise a verb with whatever modifiers or complements accompany it.
Friends and neighbours stopped by to offer help after the event. You seem unhappy. The combination of a verb and an adverb whose combined meaning cannot be deduced from their individual meanings. Friends and neighbours stopped by to offer help after the event. He stopped by the side of the road.