补语跟在一个动词后的一个或几个单词共同组成的谓语结构；例如，在我们喜欢吃冰淇淋一句中的短语吃冰淇淋 A word or words used after a verb to complete a predicate construction; for example, the phrase to eat ice cream in We like to eat ice cream.
系词将一个句子的谓语和主语连起来的动词，如be或seem的一种形式 A verb, such as a form of be or seem, that identifies the predicate of a sentence with the subject.