time frame - a time period during which something occurs or is expected to occur; an agreement can be reached in a reasonably short time frame. period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; a time period of 30 years; hastened the period of time of his recovery; Picasso's blue period. Translations.
The predicate is the part of a sentence (or clause) which tells us what the subject does or is. To put it another way, the predicate is everything that is not the subject. At the heart of the predicate is a verb.
A sentence has two parts: the subject and the predicate. The subject is what the sentence is about, and the predicate is a comment about the subject. Here are some examples of predicates. In each example, the predicate of the sentence is shaded and the verb in the predicate is in bold. A clause contains a subject and predicate too.