Question

the privileges of office give incumbents advantages over their challengers in elections.

use context clues to select the correct meaning of the underlined technical term.
A. political party leaders
B. current elected officials
C. former candidates
D. political donors

Answer 1

The answer would be B

Answer 2

The answer is B: current elected officias.

The predicate of a sentence is the part that modifies the subject  in some way.  It contains a verb and can contain a modifier, and it explains what the subject does. Complete predicates are all the words in a sentence that are not part of the complete subject, and that give more information about the subject.