Re: Subject / Object / ?

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.

So we learned not only "subject" and "object", but fancy words like
"predicate".  And the distinction among "direct object", "indirect
object", and "object of preposition".   Or between "direct object" and
"predicate nominative" (another fancy word).  Adverbial vs. adjectival
prepositional phrases.  All that good stuff.

We didn't learn the words "accusative" and "dative", though; those would
have to wait until German class.  We just said that words like "me"
were in the "objective" case.

-Marcos

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