Re: Subject / Object / ?
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 13, 2004, 19:50 |
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 11:08:09AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> It has admittedly been . . . (pause for math) . . . 27 years since I
> was in the 4th grade, but at that time we did, in fact, study how to
> diagram sentences. In English class. In a government-funded school.
> In the USA.
Not that I feel such to be necessary. Far from it. Most people do
just fine with English - even formal written English - without knowing
such things. Even the finer prescriptive distinctions (e.g. "who/whom")
can be grasped without needing to know the historical function of
morphological case in the English language (e.g. "Use 'who' wherever you
would use 'he', and 'whom' wherever you would use 'him'." Also works
for 'his'/'whose').
-Marcos
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