🛠 Learning Grammar Project
My goal is to master the concepts that ET explains here:
https://fallibleideas.com/grammar
I would like to share my notes from my first reading. Did I capture the key ideas? Any feedback is appreciated.
Notes:
Two kinds of sentences
simple - action sentence or linking sentence
complex - multiple simple sentences joined together
4 steps to analyze a simple sentence
1 - Find the verb
can be an action or linking verb
tells us what is happening in the sentence
2 - find the subject
subject is the noun that does the action or has the link
-nouns are things
Subject is normally to the left of verbs (John hit Fred)
3 - find the object or complement
action sentences can have a direct object
the subject does an action to an object
In John hit Fred the object is Fred
linking sentences must have a “subject complement”
the complement is required because it’s a completer (can’t have incomplete thoughts) the complement can be a noun or an adjective
(adjectives are explained in step 4)
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https://fallibleideas.com/grammar
I would like to share my notes from my first reading. Did I capture the key ideas? Any feedback is appreciated.
Notes:
Two kinds of sentences
simple - action sentence or linking sentence
complex - multiple simple sentences joined together
4 steps to analyze a simple sentence
1 - Find the verb
can be an action or linking verb
tells us what is happening in the sentence
2 - find the subject
subject is the noun that does the action or has the link
-nouns are things
Subject is normally to the left of verbs (John hit Fred)
3 - find the object or complement
action sentences can have a direct object
the subject does an action to an object
In John hit Fred the object is Fred
linking sentences must have a “subject complement”
the complement is required because it’s a completer (can’t have incomplete thoughts) the complement can be a noun or an adjective
(adjectives are explained in step 4)
END
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