A fundamental component of a sentence that conveys what the subject does or what state it is in, typically answering questions like "what happens" or "what is it like" regarding the subject's actions or characteristics.

In logical terms, a term or phrase that describes an attribute or property of the subject within a proposition, effectively forming part of the statement that conveys information about the subject’s identity, actions, or qualities.

A segment of a statement that asserts something about a subject, functioning as the part of speech that conveys the relationship between the subject and its attributes or actions in discourse.