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Jan. 28th, 2004 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verbicideCut for the protection of all sane people: today's conversation with Sarah.
When Sarah is mellow and calm, it makes me positively hyperbolic. Particularly in our IM chats.
It's a very balanced friendship that way. Or something. I'm also taking a bunch of communication classes, and have just undergone Grammar Bootcamp.
[17:47] sarah: cat
[17:48] sarah: what is the dif between a helping and a linking verb
[17:48] cat: OH OH I KNOW I KNOW!!!
[17:48] cat: *shriek*
[17:48] cat: um um one sec *tries to formulate*
[17:48] sarah: that's why i asked *grin*
[17:49] cat: *tries to get over excitement so can answer*
[17:49] cat: ok so.
[17:50] sarah: (asked for x, who is studying for an english test tomorrow)
[17:50] cat: so a linking verb is like a verb that helps express the relationship between subject and noun
[17:50] cat: so a linking verb is like
[17:50] cat: sarah is cool
[17:50] cat: or cat is a lunatic
[17:50] cat: or john is ceo
[17:50] cat: or something like
[17:50] sarah: ok
[17:50] cat: i feel sad
[17:51] cat: it links noun with like a predicate adjective or predicate nominative
[17:51] cat: so common ones are ... is, be, become, appear, seem
[17:51] cat: things that are linked to senses
[17:51] sarah: ok
[17:51] cat: helping verbs combine with other verbs
[17:51] cat: sarah could run
[17:52] cat: cat might run away
[17:52] cat: i should feel glad
[17:53] sarah: nother question:
[17:53] cat: god that was the most excitement i've had all day
[17:53] sarah: coordinating vs. subordinating clauses
[17:53] cat: please do ask
[17:53] cat: oh i know that too!
[17:53] cat: *dies of happiness*
[17:53] sarah: *amused*
[17:54] cat: so coordinating conjunctions connect multiple sentence elements that are equal in weight
[17:54] cat: so there is a pneumonic for it
[17:54] cat: called BOYFANS
[17:54] sarah: i cant believe you can spell pneumonic
[17:54] cat: but or yet for and nor (and sometimes so)
[17:54] cat: aren't you proud? :)
[17:54] cat: i am so smrt!
[17:54] cat: i am so smrt!
[17:55] sarah: lol
[17:55] cat: *grin*
[17:55] cat: sorry, but apparently talking about this shit makes me freaking giddy
[17:55] cat: subordinating clauses link ideas of unequal weight
[17:55] sarah: apparently
[17:55] cat: they are like: before, because, although, until, that, if, unless, since, when, while
[17:55] cat: stuff like that
[17:56] cat: so think of it like this
[17:56] cat: if you have a coordinating conjunction
[17:56] cat: you can break them into two sentences
[17:56] cat: sarah is amused and cat is insane
[17:56] cat: two sentences
[17:56] cat: but you cant do that with a subordinating conjunction
[17:56] cat: while sarah is amused, cat smacks her own head
[17:57] cat: while sarah is amused DEPENDS on something following
[17:57] cat: so it’s easy to kind of remember --because it SUBORDINATES
[17:57] cat: while coordinating conjunctions just sort of put together two separate ideas that may be linked
[17:57] cat: but can be separated
[17:57] sarah: hm
[17:57] sarah: i knew that
[17:57] sarah: from german
[17:57] sarah: dammit
[17:57] cat: *grin*
[17:57] sarah: yay
[17:57] sarah: ok
[17:57] cat: yay *dances*
[17:57] sarah: *prints chat log*
[17:58] cat: *grin* HI X
[17:58] sarah: "hello cat"
[17:58] cat: hee!
[17:58] sarah: he says thank you cat
[17:58] cat: omg i dream of the day someone wants to talk to me about verbals, gerunds and noun stacks
[17:58] cat: he's so welcome and ANYTIME
[17:58] sarah: ROFL
[17:58] sarah: well
[17:59] cat: tell x he should feel totally free to ask me questions himself if you're not around to facilitate
[17:59] cat: i just said facilitate
[17:59] cat: woo
[17:59] sarah: i shall do this
[17:59] sarah: ok wow
[17:59] cat: *beam*
[18:01] sarah: brb
[18:01] cat: k
[18:02] sarah: my mom is like dying laughing at that transcript
[18:02] sarah: she thinks you're hysterical
[18:02] cat: :}
[18:03] sarah: she keeps giggling
[18:03] cat: hee
[18:03] cat: *sheepish*
[18:03] cat: grammar is very exciting :D
When Sarah is mellow and calm, it makes me positively hyperbolic. Particularly in our IM chats.
It's a very balanced friendship that way. Or something. I'm also taking a bunch of communication classes, and have just undergone Grammar Bootcamp.
[17:47] sarah: cat
[17:48] sarah: what is the dif between a helping and a linking verb
[17:48] cat: OH OH I KNOW I KNOW!!!
[17:48] cat: *shriek*
[17:48] cat: um um one sec *tries to formulate*
[17:48] sarah: that's why i asked *grin*
[17:49] cat: *tries to get over excitement so can answer*
[17:49] cat: ok so.
[17:50] sarah: (asked for x, who is studying for an english test tomorrow)
[17:50] cat: so a linking verb is like a verb that helps express the relationship between subject and noun
[17:50] cat: so a linking verb is like
[17:50] cat: sarah is cool
[17:50] cat: or cat is a lunatic
[17:50] cat: or john is ceo
[17:50] cat: or something like
[17:50] sarah: ok
[17:50] cat: i feel sad
[17:51] cat: it links noun with like a predicate adjective or predicate nominative
[17:51] cat: so common ones are ... is, be, become, appear, seem
[17:51] cat: things that are linked to senses
[17:51] sarah: ok
[17:51] cat: helping verbs combine with other verbs
[17:51] cat: sarah could run
[17:52] cat: cat might run away
[17:52] cat: i should feel glad
[17:53] sarah: nother question:
[17:53] cat: god that was the most excitement i've had all day
[17:53] sarah: coordinating vs. subordinating clauses
[17:53] cat: please do ask
[17:53] cat: oh i know that too!
[17:53] cat: *dies of happiness*
[17:53] sarah: *amused*
[17:54] cat: so coordinating conjunctions connect multiple sentence elements that are equal in weight
[17:54] cat: so there is a pneumonic for it
[17:54] cat: called BOYFANS
[17:54] sarah: i cant believe you can spell pneumonic
[17:54] cat: but or yet for and nor (and sometimes so)
[17:54] cat: aren't you proud? :)
[17:54] cat: i am so smrt!
[17:54] cat: i am so smrt!
[17:55] sarah: lol
[17:55] cat: *grin*
[17:55] cat: sorry, but apparently talking about this shit makes me freaking giddy
[17:55] cat: subordinating clauses link ideas of unequal weight
[17:55] sarah: apparently
[17:55] cat: they are like: before, because, although, until, that, if, unless, since, when, while
[17:55] cat: stuff like that
[17:56] cat: so think of it like this
[17:56] cat: if you have a coordinating conjunction
[17:56] cat: you can break them into two sentences
[17:56] cat: sarah is amused and cat is insane
[17:56] cat: two sentences
[17:56] cat: but you cant do that with a subordinating conjunction
[17:56] cat: while sarah is amused, cat smacks her own head
[17:57] cat: while sarah is amused DEPENDS on something following
[17:57] cat: so it’s easy to kind of remember --because it SUBORDINATES
[17:57] cat: while coordinating conjunctions just sort of put together two separate ideas that may be linked
[17:57] cat: but can be separated
[17:57] sarah: hm
[17:57] sarah: i knew that
[17:57] sarah: from german
[17:57] sarah: dammit
[17:57] cat: *grin*
[17:57] sarah: yay
[17:57] sarah: ok
[17:57] cat: yay *dances*
[17:57] sarah: *prints chat log*
[17:58] cat: *grin* HI X
[17:58] sarah: "hello cat"
[17:58] cat: hee!
[17:58] sarah: he says thank you cat
[17:58] cat: omg i dream of the day someone wants to talk to me about verbals, gerunds and noun stacks
[17:58] cat: he's so welcome and ANYTIME
[17:58] sarah: ROFL
[17:58] sarah: well
[17:59] cat: tell x he should feel totally free to ask me questions himself if you're not around to facilitate
[17:59] cat: i just said facilitate
[17:59] cat: woo
[17:59] sarah: i shall do this
[17:59] sarah: ok wow
[17:59] cat: *beam*
[18:01] sarah: brb
[18:01] cat: k
[18:02] sarah: my mom is like dying laughing at that transcript
[18:02] sarah: she thinks you're hysterical
[18:02] cat: :}
[18:03] sarah: she keeps giggling
[18:03] cat: hee
[18:03] cat: *sheepish*
[18:03] cat: grammar is very exciting :D
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Re:
Date: 2004-01-29 10:39 am (UTC)It'd be great to have more Hawk in my life, however obtained!
Caution: I'm extra-perky on IM systems for some reason.
Everywhere else I sort of do a final run through and delouse my writing of extraneous !!!s.