Timo Paulssen wrote:
Yes, the word that is to "verb" what "subject" is to "noun" is "predicate," and sometimes that is used as the term by which these things are taught. But I half-recall a teacher mentioning in passing that she preferred calling it a "verb" there, because "predicate" is too broad term, I think. For example, in the sentence "Fred is a doctor," the subject is "Fred" and the predicate is "is a doctor" ("a doctor" being a predicate nominative, and part of the predicate) whereas the verb is "is." So it isn't necessarily a confusion of categories to speak of subject-verb-object and not subject-predicate-object or noun-verb-noun.Cyril Slobin wrote:I have just now discovered that English language has such a confusion. Correct me if I am wrong, but... In English we can speak, say, about the SVO order. "S" is for "Subject" here, and nobody mistakes "Subject" with "Noun", although noun can (and often do) work as subject.I have only been told of the SPO order: Subject, Predicate and Object. - Timo
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