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The term “predicate” refers to the fact that it’s in the latter part of the sentence and “nominative” is related to the nominative case, which essentially means a subject.
The predicate nominative is the reason people on the phone say “This is she” instead of “This is her.” Normally, after a verb, we use an object pronoun.
There would be no predicate nominative in this case. To treat NOT LISTENING as a predicate nominative would mean YOU = NOT LISTENING, which may have been your intention.
Max S. Kirch, Predicate Nominative and Statal Passive Again, Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring, 1975), pp. 103-104 ...
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