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Grammar Lesson 36
• Vocab:
• Stoic – Stoics were ancient Greeks who belonged to a movement that taught
men to be free from joy, grief, and any kind of passion to gain wisdom. Stoic,
an adjective, means indifferent to pleasure and pain.
• Sybaritic – Sybaris, an ancient Greek city in Italy, known for wealth and
hedonism. Sybaritic means extravagant and sensual.
Diagramming Predicate Nominatives
• Predicate nominative is a noun that follows the verb.
• Predicate nominative renames the subject person, animal, or thing.
• Reversing the order of the subject and predicate nominative won’t change
the meaning of the sentence.
• A predicate nominative is joined to the subject by a linking verb such as:
• Is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been, become, seem
Predicate Nominative
• To find the predicate nominative:
• Replace verb with a “to be” verb
• Flip the sentence
• See board for diagramming
Grammar Lesson 37
• Vocab
• Felicitous – appropriate or fitting
• Fortuitous – happening or produced by chance, accidental, lucky
Noun Case
• Three types of noun case
• Nominative – when a noun is the subject or used as a predicate nominative
• Possessive – nouns that show possession or ownership
• Objective – nouns used as direct objects, indirect objects, or objects of prepositions
Grammar Lesson 38
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Vocab
Ven- and vent- -- Latin roots that come from venire meaning come
Advent – coming or arrival
Intervene – come between or mediate between two opposing groups
Diagramming Predicate Adjectives
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Predicate nominative renames the subject
Predicate adjective describes the subject
Predicate adjective follows a linking verb and describes the subject
Predicate adjectives can be compound
See board for diagramming