Yes, I will. I'm trying to get my hands on a copy of her text, but won't see her or have it until Wed. Julie Campbell Julie's Music & Language Studio 1215 W. Worley Columbia, MO 65203 573-881-6889 https://juliesmusicandlanguagestudio.musicteachershelper.com/ http://www.facebook.com/JuliesMusicLanguageStudio On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Could you quote the sentences ? O.K. > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> > *To:* lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Sent:* Saturday, October 5, 2013 7:55 PM > *Subject:* [lit-ideas] Re: Calling all linguists/grammarians > > 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 > 573-881-6889 > https://juliesmusicandlanguagestudio.musicteachershelper.com/ > http://www.facebook.com/JuliesMusicLanguageStudio > > > > 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* > *This is pretty much the standard contemporary terminology.* > * * > *'hope it helps* > > > *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 > > 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. > > 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! > > Any and all thoughts, ideas, directions, observations, corrections, are > appreciated! > > Julie Campbell > Julie's Music & Language Studio > 1215 W. Worley > Columbia, MO 65203 > 573-881-6889 > https://juliesmusicandlanguagestudio.musicteachershelper.com/ > http://www.facebook.com/JuliesMusicLanguageStudio > > > > > >