Re: Subject / Object / ?

On Monday 13 September 2004 02:53, Ph. D. wrote:

 > In the United States, the education establishment in the
 > public schools (i.e. primary and secondary schools)
 > considers it old-fashioned to teach grammatical concepts
 > such as subject and object and how to analyse a sentence.

And how will you learn about how your own language works
syntactically to avoid syntax mistakes? OTOH, English has
no declension, therefore you cannot run into any errors
there. We've learnt that stuff in second or third grade,
when I was 8 or 9 or so. It was a pain to learn because of
the "what": nominative "who or what", genitive "whose",
dative "to whom", accusative "to whom or what". When you
haven't got any feeling for language, I never knew if an
argument is nominative or accusative when it was neuter.
Poor Finnish children ...

I don't believe there are any more things than subjects and
objects? I mean except the verb, which is actually called
"predicate" when talking about syntax!

Carsten

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