[This is from Colette, turning toward Yuan with fascination. She's heard Yuan and Lloyd discuss swords, but still doesn't know much about the style, save from watching them fight -- and their styles are very different.
[With Genis and Sheena sniping and Colette thus occupied, Kratos leans in a little.]
Alright. Review for me?
Uhh ... well, we've got the subject, which makes choices or takes actions affecting the rest of the village. And the object, which is everything affected by the choice, but sometimes isn't really there. The verb is the choice or action affecting the whole village. And the adjectives are what traits the subject and object wear which make them unique, right? And you said something about nouns ...
[At this Lloyd squints down at the slate, but Kratos is nodding.]
Nouns are like titles. 'Girl', or 'fox', or 'dog'. A proper noun is a noun with unique definable attributes, like 'Colette'; they don't usually need to have adjectives applied, because all that they are is inherent in the proper noun. There are also pronouns, but I think that's getting a bit complicated for just now.
[At that, Lloyd looks relieved, the furrow in his brow smoothing.]
Yeah, okay. What about this other one, then? Add-verbials? Huh. Are they kind of like choices too?
[Kratos notes that. So, Lloyd isn't oblivious to patterns; but he does seem to see patterns in ways less academic than Raine might be familiar with.]
In a manner of speaking. An adverbial describes how, when or where a choice is made. In this case, it tells us the fox jumped over the dog -- as opposed to around or on top of it.
*when i said pronoun before pls pretend i said proper noun because that's what i meant
[This is from Colette, turning toward Yuan with fascination. She's heard Yuan and Lloyd discuss swords, but still doesn't know much about the style, save from watching them fight -- and their styles are very different.
[With Genis and Sheena sniping and Colette thus occupied, Kratos leans in a little.]
Alright. Review for me?
Uhh ... well, we've got the subject, which makes choices or takes actions affecting the rest of the village. And the object, which is everything affected by the choice, but sometimes isn't really there. The verb is the choice or action affecting the whole village. And the adjectives are what traits the subject and object wear which make them unique, right? And you said something about nouns ...
[At this Lloyd squints down at the slate, but Kratos is nodding.]
Nouns are like titles. 'Girl', or 'fox', or 'dog'. A proper noun is a noun with unique definable attributes, like 'Colette'; they don't usually need to have adjectives applied, because all that they are is inherent in the proper noun. There are also pronouns, but I think that's getting a bit complicated for just now.
[At that, Lloyd looks relieved, the furrow in his brow smoothing.]
Yeah, okay. What about this other one, then? Add-verbials? Huh. Are they kind of like choices too?
[Kratos notes that. So, Lloyd isn't oblivious to patterns; but he does seem to see patterns in ways less academic than Raine might be familiar with.]
In a manner of speaking. An adverbial describes how, when or where a choice is made. In this case, it tells us the fox jumped over the dog -- as opposed to around or on top of it.