[lit-ideas] Re: Calling all linguists/grammarians
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 12:08:12 -0700 (PDT)
Could you quote the sentences ? O.K.
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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/
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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
complement
>This is pretty much the standard contemporary terminology.
>
>'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
>
>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
>
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