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fdier02140.free.fr/wallace2.pdfDixon, too, suggests that the anarthrous pre-verbal predicate nominative (in John’s Gospel at least) is primarily qualitative in force.16 Öc. Summary 1)Colwell stated that a definite PN that precedes the verb is usually anarthrous. He did not say the converse, namely, an anarthrous PN that precedes the verb is usually definite.