Re: Subject / Object / ?

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
> Rodlox wrote:
>
> > what is the difference between Subjects, Objects, and
> > something that might be confused with them?
>
> Is Rodlox American? Is the education system where he
> lives so bad?
>
> I mean, those are notions I learned in first year of primary
> school (age 6) and used throughout my education in French,
> English and Spanish classes.
>
> This is nothing against Rodlox. He isn't responsible if he
> wasn't given that information before. But I shudder at the
> kind of education that leaves such simple (and necessary
> if you want to be able to even begin analysing a sentence)
> notions out.

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.

--Ph. D.

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