[lit-ideas] Re: Calling all linguists/grammarians
- From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 12:55:48 -0500
That's what I believed (thanks for the validation) ... until this week the
student was given an assignment to indicate whether something in each
sentence was a predicate nominative OR a subject complement! Hence my
confusion re. grammar terminology in this instance.
Julie Campbell
Julie's Music & Language Studio
1215 W. Worley
Columbia, MO 65203
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On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Adriano Palma <Palma@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> **1. **The traditional term for a noun, pronoun, or other nominal that
> follows a linking verb. The contemporary term for a *predicate nominative* is
> subject compl*ement*****
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> *This is pretty much the standard contemporary terminology.*
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> *'hope it helps*****
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> *From:* lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Julie Krueger
> *Sent:* 05 October 2013 06:52 PM
> *To:* lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [lit-ideas] Calling all linguists/grammarians****
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> I'm tutoring a high school kid in Honor's English. I thought I had a
> pretty solid grammar foundation -- I used to diagram sentences for fun, and
> I've studied French, Spanish, Greek, Hebrew, and Latin. However. The
> class seems to be making distinctions among predicate nominatives, subject
> complements, and appositives which are bewildering, especially since much
> of the material out there uses "predicate nominative" and "subject
> complement" interchangeably, and the sources that do not distinguish them
> differently from one another. Her text is close to worthless because the
> teacher does not hew closely to it. There seems to be a fair amount of
> latitude in grammar terminology these days amongst sources and teachers.
> Googling only confuses the issues because every "solid" website I can find
> either interchanges the terms synonymously, or distinguishes the terms from
> one another differently from the last website.****
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> I'm going to ask the student if there's any way she can record the
> classes, but I'm looking at listening to hours of classroom explication if
> she's able to do so!****
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> Any and all thoughts, ideas, directions, observations, corrections, are
> appreciated!****
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> Julie Campbell****
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> Julie's Music & Language Studio****
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> 1215 W. Worley****
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> Columbia, MO 65203****
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> 573-881-6889****
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> https://juliesmusicandlanguagestudio.musicteachershelper.com/****
>
> http://www.facebook.com/JuliesMusicLanguageStudio****
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