En réponse à Joe :
>Personally, I'd agree with that
So basically, you're saying that it's acceptable to be unable to analyse
your own sentences. I can't agree with that.
> - but what about in language classes?
Surely English classes for English speakers *are* language classes ;) .
>Surely it's neccesary to learn it there.(though, having said that, I've
>just remembered that the main language learned is Spanish, which doesn't
>have cases...)
The more useful those concepts are then! The concepts of subject and object
are mainly useful in Indo-European languages without cases, where you
cannot just indicate the noun's case to know its function.
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.