The article deals with the correlation of the terms “predication”, “predicative relation / connection”, “predicativeness”. The author describes and gives the critical analysis of the main approaches to the study of these concepts in modern linguistics. The author’s interpretation of the terms “predication” and “predicativeness” in their correlation is given in the article.

The article deals with the actual segmentation of semantically complicated sentences with infinitive secondary predicative structures, which are one of the most common ways to form secondary predicative constructions in English. It is shown that such IPSs have their own actual segmentation together with the actual segmentation of the matrix sentence that acquires the additional theme or rhema

The article deals with the basic types of macrosituations based on semantically complex sentences with secondary predicative structures in the modern English language. A macrosituation as an element of the objective reality unites several events. The analysis of the situations is carried out from the objective reality to proposition, and from it to a sentence.