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The purpose of this paper is to show what factors are to be considered when dealing with the relationship between predicates and their complementation from a perspective of pedagogical grammar. In this paper, the term ‘predicate’ refers to the key word that determines the meaning and structure/pattern of a sentence. With a focus on selected adjectives and verbs, the following problems are discussed; i) the status of an external argument according to predicates ii) issues on the distinction between complement and adjunct with regard to internal arguments iii) the choices of different types of complements according to the polysemy of a word iv) semantic properties of predicate adjectives according to the choices of different complements v) verbs and types of complement clauses and vi) the role of a predicate in structural derivation. This investigation demonstrates the importance of a lexical approach in dealing with grammar pattern and structure in that one lexical item can take various senses which require different types of complements. Thus, the dependence of structure and pattern on lexical meaning needs to be emphasized for learners of English as a foreign language.