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Stage 1-e — on Predicates — up close

Get ready to take a closer — and fuller — look at the predicate. Crucially, it makes for “half” of the all-important (not to mention essential) grammatical building block of the sentence, the main clause. Yes, our sentences usually present the subject first, then the predicate, as shown and exemplified throughout my Stage 1-b post,…

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Stage 1-f — on Subjects — up real close

In this final post in Stage 1, we’ll wrap up our foundation, as I’ve been calling this stage, with a much-closer look at the subject, the predicate’s mate in the main clause (aka independent clause). But, before we get into this “subjective” exploration (and that’s more than a pun, as you will soon see), let’s…

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