[That tone in Yuan's mental voice is very nearly soothing, after a fashion. Seeing Yuan very nearly domestic is novel, curious, but unfamiliar.]
Hm. Well, why don't we change it to someone more palatable. Is there anyone else in the village -- aside from Raine -- with a similar kind of authority?
[There's a moment of silence, and then Lloyd glances at Colette and grins.]
Well, there's Colette's dad, Frank. He mixes the gels and attends a lot of people who gets sick, or women who are pregnant. He was the nearest thing to a healer we had before Raine arrived. And he's the guardian of the Chosen, of course. Everyone listens to Frank. Everyone likes him, too.
[Kratos smiles. It's good to hear the Chosen had a good family to depend on, at least, especially since -- his smile falters, and he refocusses on Lloyd's slate so he doesn't have to consider how closely related Colette might be to the last Chosen he'd known in any capacity.]
Alright; a good choice. A doctor makes difficult decisions which affect everyone in the village. How to distribute gels, how to tend the ill, who gets priority. The subject is the same way; in a sentence, a subject performs an action which affects everything else in the sentence. Where is the subject in this one, Lloyd?
[Lloyd looks at his slate with an interest he hadn't held even at the beginning of the lesson.]
Well, that'd be the fox, right? It's doing something that affects the only other person in the sentence, the dog. So that'd make 'jumped' the action-word, right? That's called a verb?
no subject
Hm. Well, why don't we change it to someone more palatable. Is there anyone else in the village -- aside from Raine -- with a similar kind of authority?
[There's a moment of silence, and then Lloyd glances at Colette and grins.]
Well, there's Colette's dad, Frank. He mixes the gels and attends a lot of people who gets sick, or women who are pregnant. He was the nearest thing to a healer we had before Raine arrived. And he's the guardian of the Chosen, of course. Everyone listens to Frank. Everyone likes him, too.
[Kratos smiles. It's good to hear the Chosen had a good family to depend on, at least, especially since -- his smile falters, and he refocusses on Lloyd's slate so he doesn't have to consider how closely related Colette might be to the last Chosen he'd known in any capacity.]
Alright; a good choice. A doctor makes difficult decisions which affect everyone in the village. How to distribute gels, how to tend the ill, who gets priority. The subject is the same way; in a sentence, a subject performs an action which affects everything else in the sentence. Where is the subject in this one, Lloyd?
[Lloyd looks at his slate with an interest he hadn't held even at the beginning of the lesson.]
Well, that'd be the fox, right? It's doing something that affects the only other person in the sentence, the dog. So that'd make 'jumped' the action-word, right? That's called a verb?