Re: Subject / Object / ?

>  In any case, I think you need to be acquainted with the ideas of
> subject, object and indirect object because you need to know what you're
> making the verb agree with (in many cases indirect object pronouns are
> compulsory even when the argument they refer to is present), especially
> since we have very little in the way of verbal agreement in English.
Well, you _have_ it, which is more than can be said for Swedish. I cannot
offhand recall how it was explained to us back in 4th grade, but it pretty much
must have preceeded the introduction of the concepts of subject and object in
Swedish class.

I don't have any textbooks from back then left, but kicking my brain around a
bit, I seem to recall we learnt _I am_, _you are_, etc, as a kind of units;
_jag är_=_I am_, _du är_=_you are_, _han är_=_he is_, and so on. Still can't
recall how they explained the sg~pl distinction; trying to think how _I_ would
do it, I suspect they might've de-facto used the concept of subject without
using the term; saying it agrees with the word "carrying out" the verb.

                                                       Andreas