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Re: Predicate Nominative/ Predicate Adjective !HELP!

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:04:58 GMT

basicly predacate nominative is a noun in the predacate. so first you have to find the subject.

Example- Our teacher is Ms. Nancy.

^ ^

subject pred. nom.

predicate adjective is an adjective in the predicate.

Example- Ms. Nancy is our teacher.

^ ^

subject pred. adj.

so a predicate adjective or nominative is a word that tells whom or what the subject is.

p.s. i'm only 12 so cut me some slack on spelling!!!!!!!!!

Re: Adult native English speakers do not commit errors in usage.

milky — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:22:05 GMT

Here's another one denying that errors by native speakers are possible:

"This goes back to the whole descriptivism versus prescriptivism matter, even though such is in a written context. Aside from purely orthographic matters like spelling, since when can you say that a usage by a native speaker is "incorrect"? And if you insist upon a prescriptive position, you then clearly run into nonsensical prescriptive positions which clearly do not correspond to actual present usage at all, such as insisting that copulative verbs take predicate nouns whose cases are nominative rather than oblique or insisting that pronouns which are parts of subjects are always in nominative case. (And just for the record, being told by a non-native speaker of one's native language that one incorrectly speaks or writes in one's native language is very insulting, to say the very least...) "

http://www.antimoon.com/forum/t8079-60.htm

Re: Please translate these Latin sentences into English.

Tanit — Tue, 08 May 2007 19:44:23 GMT

Hi,

Your sentences contain many mistakes, both spelling and punctuation ones.

The first sentence is part a Christian prayer (shortened form, I put '...' where parts of the text are missing):

Credo in unum Deum Patrem omnipotentem; factorum coeli et terrae, visibilium omnium et invisibilium ... Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato, passus et sepultus est; et resurrexit tertia die, secundum Scripturas... Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum et vivificantem, qui ex Patre Filioque procedit ...

I believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible ... was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried, and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures ... And [we believe] in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life, who proceedeth from the Father and the Son ...

This translation is not mine (I only selected the sentences you posted, and changed "We" with "I" because your text reads "credo", 1st person singluar, instead of "credimus", 2nd person plural), but comes from here.

As for your second sentence,

Jackson6612 wrote:

Hominus similis daeus quis chaedit ad Latin.

it's not as famous as the first one; what's more, there are too many mistakes, which make it impossible (for me) to translate it. Could you please check your text? I haven't been studying Latin for many years, but, if my memory serves me correctly, it could be either:

"Homo similis deo qui ..." (homo=man,nominative; deo=God, dative) => It is similar to God a man who ... (this should be the most likely one)

"Homini similis deus qui" (homini=man,dative; deus=God, nominative) => It is similar to man a God who ...

(only assumptions, though!) I cannot go on with the sentence because "chaedit" doesn't exist and I can't imagine what it is supposed to be.

Re: Singular & plural words

JoeTotale — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:44:16 GMT

It's been said before, but here's the fully-detailed (too-much-detailed) explanation of octopus. Don't worry if you get confused; this is more for the English-speakers who are confused about the whole matter:

"Octopus" comes from the Greek roots "okto" (eight) and "pous" (foot). It's a Latinized spelling, which is why the "ou" got changed to a "u" (see also "Constantinople" for "Konstantinoupolis"). The "-us" ending leads many people to believe that it's a second-declension Latin noun, but it's not. It's Greek third-declension, the root of which is "pod-":

The singular nominative was originally "pods", but the language evolved so that "ts", "ds", and "ths" all became "s". To compensate for the lost consonant, the preceding short vowel was lengthened (so "pods" > "poos", or "pous"). The rest of the declension -- "podos", "podi", and "poda" in the singular -- was unchanged, because there was no S to take away the D. The plural goes "podes", "podon", "pousi" (from "podsi"), and "podas". Therefore, going by Greek standards, the plural of "oktopous" would be "oktopodes" (or "octopus" > "octopodes").

The reason you don't see more "pus"/"pous" spellings is that, during the Renaissance, words tended to be derived from the undeclined roots themselves and not from the declined nominatives. A camera therefore rests on a tripod, not a tripodes.

Incidentally, "cactus" is another word that people assume to be Latin and make "cacti" the plural. The original word is "kaktos", the plural of which is "kaktoi".

So you can be pedantic and insist on "octopodes" and "cactoi"; you can be foolish and insist on "octopi" and "cacti"; or you can take a much preferable middle ground and just say "octopuses" and "cactuses" and leave all the silly etymological stuff for the people who care way too much about it.

Interestingly enough, the only areas where people do apparently care about Greek plurals is in dental-stem neuter nouns of the third declension. Take the root "dogmat-", for example. To form the singular, you add nothing to the stem (dogmat), and since Greek words can end only in N, S, or a vowel, the T disappears (dogma). To form the plural, you add an A to the stem (dogmata). (Stigma/stigmata is another example) There are few of these words but oddly enough, it comes off as uneducated not to know them. (if you're really interested, the "dogmat-" stem holds through the rest of the declension: dogmatos, dogmati, etc.)

Re: Letter I

Timbo — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:43:51 GMT

Tinaband,

The rules are actually quite simple.

When in the nominative e.g. I, You, Him... it is always captial.

When the letter 'i' is contained within the spelling of a word and at the beginning of a sentence it is upper case. e.g. Islands often have a port or harbour to allow ships to dock.

When contained within a sentence and within the spelling of a word, it is lower case. e.g. The island I live on, has a harbour and a wharf.

Hope this helps.