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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 • • • • 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 • • • • • 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