English UsageGrammar guide
Predicated On: Standard Pattern
Predicated On: Standard Pattern records the directly documented construction and keeps guidance bounded to the evidenced complement pattern rather than inventing a broader prohibition.
Use “be predicated on” when an idea, forecast, argument, or plan depends on the existence or truth of something.
Key details
Confusion Familyusage-construction
Rule Familyverb complement
Termspredicated on
Further guidance
Construction
Use “be predicated on” when an idea, forecast, argument, or plan depends on the existence or truth of something.
Style Boundary
This guide records the directly documented “on” construction and does not turn corpus variants into a universal rule about every possible formal phrasing.
Sources and evidence
Sources are shown with the role they play in this guide. Historical or style-sensitive claims are kept within the evidence boundary described above.
- PREDICATED | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary (opens in a new tab)Cambridge University Press & Assessment · Cambridge dictionary evidence for be predicated on something as a documented construction.