Lost & Clueless?
Leon Lentz
????English teacher ????founder/CGO/trainer Leon's ?? grammarCORE & author of ?? ONE RULE ENGLISH: Why Grammar S*cks & How to Fix It ????discover the One Rule approach for English teachers
Place yourself in the shoes of an innocent English learner and look up a grammar term like 'subject complement' on the internet. I did, and this is what I found:
“a word or a group of words, usually functioning as an adjective or noun, that is used in the predicate following a copula and describes or is identified with the subject of the sentence.”
What? Poor learner: you're looking for clear answers, but you get a bucketful of gibberish instead and still have no clue.
Confucius: Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated
Why so complicated?
Let's translate the convoluted jargon into something intelligible, like everyday human language.
Sentences are tiny movies: its main character(s) (=Subject) always ARE or DO something (=subject complement).
A helping verb, like am, are, is (= a form of to be), connects the Star(s) of the movie to the information about them.
As simple as that
That's all: information about the Star of the movie. Forget about words like complement, copula or predicate. There's no need to complicate things.
Happy learner: now you can get the message without the gibberish.
Grammar should help, not hinder.
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???? Hi, I'm Leon, and I help English language teachers discover how a ONE RULE approach to grammar ?EMPOWERS them & their students, ?SAVES TIME better spent on serious fun with the language, and ?BOOSTS motivation & results.
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