Attribute (as predicate nominal)

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In French grammar, the term attribute is used to denote the syntactic relation of a predicative noun phrase or adjective phrase, i.e. it corresponds to the term predicate nominal that is more widespread in English.

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This is the usual meaning of attribut in French. (The equivalent of attribute in French is épithète; see epithet.)

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