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Re: about "seem"

It seems that Ken knows a lot about music.

No, it's not a subject complement, though it is a complement.

The subject is the dummy pronoun "it" and the underlined content clause is complement of the verb "seem". But it is not subject complement since "it" is non-referential (it has no meaning), but serves only to fill the syntactic subject position.

Does that help?



PaulM

Re: about "seem"

Thank you,Paul!