Is this Gerund a Direct Object or Predicate Nominative?
The book is right. MEANT is a linking verb since it leads to not a direct object but to further info about the subject of the sentice. Notice that you could replace MEANT with IS, an obvious linking verb, and still retain the sense of the sentence. The EATING is a subject compliment. The owl/purdue website gives the following example of a subject complement: Gerund as subject complement: My cat's favorite activity is sleeping. (The gerund is sleeping.) This sentence could be a model, or example, of your own sentence. The touchier issue is: How do respectfully disagree with a teacher.... I also feel that this distinction is picky-picky. What's important is how well you write and not to make fine grammatical distinctions. Grammar is not an end in an itself; it a means to an end, and your ability to identify the elements in this sentence will play little part in your feel for writing.
Subject, verb, predicate nominative, predicate adjective, direct object, or indirect object?
It's the subject of the sentence. It is a noun. The verb in the sentence is "can be." A fundraiser is an event for which people pay money to take part in, such as a party for a political candidate that people pay to attend, or a concert in which most, if not all, of the net proceeds go to a charity or organization. Many communities have fundraisers. Some fundraisers use communities on a national level, such as the Susan B. Kommen walk/run for breast cancer. The money raised by walkers and runners is contributed to the Susan B. Kommen (I think that's the spelling) Foundation and is spent towards breast cancer research. A bake sale or even a garage sale (some places call this a yard sale) can also be a fundraiser. In a carwash, often school members of a group like cheerleaders, band members, or a social or service club in high school or college offer to wash drivers' cars for a fee. Then the group gives the money to the project it's raising funds for.
Subject, verb, predicate nominative, predicate adjective, direct object, or indirect object?
I'm basically going to break down this sentences for you because I think it will be easier for me to explain that way. First sentence: The freshman class planned a carwash for last Saturday. Subject: The simple subject of this sentence is class. ("The" and "freshman" describe class. "The" is an article which automatically makes it an adjective, and "freshman" asks which class it is.) Verb/Simple Predicate: The verb in this sentence is planned because it tells what the class did. Direct Object: The direct object is carwash because it tells what was planned.. The last three words in the sentence , "for last Saturday", make up a prepositional phrase. If you haven't gotten to this yet in your English class, don't worry about it. Second sentence: On Saturday morning, the sky did not look good. The first three words, "On Saturday morning", are also a prepositional phrase. Even if you don't yet know what a prepositional phrase is, you can that it is not of great importance because you can read the sentence without it and it still retain its basic meaning. Subject: "Sky" is the subject because it is the main topic of the sentence and what the sentence describes. Simple Predicate/Verb: "Did look" is the verb. It is a linking verb because it is "linked" to a description of the subject (see below). "Did" is also included in the verb because it is a helping verb, but "not" is not part of the simple predicate/verb because it is a negative (along with never, etc.) which makes it an adverb here. Predicate adjective: "Good" is the predicate adjective because it tells how the sky looks (or in this case, does not look). It relates back to the subject. I hope this helps. To clear some other things up: A predicate nominative is a noun that follows a linking verb. Example: It was a DOG. An indirect object is easier shown by example than simply explained in words. Example: Mike gave ME an apple. "Me" is the indirect object. Mike did not literally give "me" to anyone, he gave "me" the apple.
Which words are complements, and are they direct objects, indirect objects, predicate nominative,predicate adj?
Hi, this is really quite simple. 1) Rearrange the sentence to make it a statement. Most people are conformists Are=linking verb Conformists=Complement (predicate nominative) 2)Many students merely follow the crowd Follow=verb The crowd=Direct Object 3)Awareness of fads or fashions is quite important Is=linking verb Quite important=complement (predicate adjective). Simply identify the verb in each clause. If it is the verb 'to be' (is, are, were, was) the words following are either a predicate nom or pred adj. If it is another type of verb, then the words following it are direct or indirect objects. If you need further help, you can email me.