Such a conception of the relation between subject and predicate however is at once contradicted by the copula 'is'.
但对主词谓词关系的这种看法，却与联系词“是”矛盾。
Predicate must be in agreement with its subject grammatically. Semantically, there is a direct selectional relationship between subject and predicate, too.
谓语必须和主语在语法上一致，语义上具有直接的选择关系。
This paper presents a contrastive study of the syntactic and the semantic relationships between subject and predicate of the English and the Chinese sentence.
本文对英汉语句子主谓之间的句法和语义关系进行了对比研究。
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