Grammar Lesson 36

• Vocab:• Stoic – Stoics were ancient Greeks who belonged to a

movement that taught men to be free from joy, grief, and any kind of passion to gain wisdom. Stoic, an adjective, means indifferent to pleasure and pain.

• Sybaritic – Sybaris, an ancient Greek city in Italy, known for wealth and hedonism. Sybaritic means extravagant and sensual.

Diagramming Predicate Nominatives

• Predicate nominative is a noun that follows the verb.• Predicate nominative renames the subject person, animal,

or thing.• Reversing the order of the subject and predicate

nominative won’t change the meaning of the sentence.• A predicate nominative is joined to the subject by a linking

verb such as:• Is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been, become, seem

Predicate Nominative

• To find the predicate nominative:• Replace verb with a “to be” verb• Flip the sentence

• See board for diagramming

Grammar Lesson 37

• Vocab• Felicitous – appropriate or fitting• Fortuitous – happening or produced by chance, accidental,

lucky

Noun Case

• Three types of noun case• Nominative – when a noun is the subject or used as a predicate

nominative• Possessive – nouns that show possession or ownership• Objective – nouns used as direct objects, indirect objects, or

objects of prepositions

Grammar Lesson 38

• Vocab• Ven- and vent- -- Latin roots that come from venire

meaning come• Advent – coming or arrival• Intervene – come between or mediate between two

opposing groups

Diagramming Predicate Adjectives

• Predicate nominative renames the subject• Predicate adjective describes the subject• Predicate adjective follows a linking verb and describes

the subject• Predicate adjectives can be compound• See board for diagramming