Predicate nominative is also popularly known as the predicate noun. It is a noun, a pronoun or any nominal that follows the linking verb and most of the time the form of the verb be. It links or completes the linking and change the name of the subject. It complements or completes the verb in the sentence. However, predicate nominative completes only linking verbs. Predicate nominative can be compound while some do not have one. Therefore in the sentence "Sugar is the main ingredient in taffy", the predicate nominative is "ingredient".
Answer:
to suggest that children consider the lottery a game and do not understand it
Explanation:
According to the passage from "The Lottery", the narrator describes school being over for the summer and how uneasy the children were feeling about their liberty.
He describes Bobby Martins and some other boys picking up the smoothest and roundest stones and gathering them in a pile and guarding them.
Therefore, the most likely purpose of depicting how the boys are collecting the stones is that to suggest that children consider the lottery a game and do not understand it
