In this setence: "Your guesses are better than most people's facts." the word "are" is A) simple predicate.
A simple predicate is the main vern of the sentence, the rest of the words together with the main verb is called compund predicate, but this is not the case since the main verb "are" is separated from the rest when asking about its description on the sentence.
here we have another example of a simple predicate:
I like eating pizza and Nachos.
King divides writers into four categories: bad, competent, good, and great.
In his nonfictional essay <em>On Writing, </em>he writes about the authors and their craft. He makes a division of writers:
1. bad writers - most of them, according to King
2. competent writers - whose books you might find selling next to newspapers
3. really good writers - a very small group of writers
4. geniuses - writers such as Shakespeare, Faulkner, Yeats, Shaw, etc.
After a claim from your opponent
Because for it to be a claim it needs to be supported by an evidence or it would just be your opinion