Discussions At The Garden Bench

What is your understanding of noun complements and adjective complements and how they are used in language?

An adjective complement, also known as a predicate adjective, is an adjective that describes the subject. A noun complement, also called a subject compliment, is a noun that renames the subject.

They are used in language with linking verbs with the subject and the noun and they are IS, AM, ARE, WAS, or WERE. Nouns answer to who or what. Adjectives answer to What kind of?, Which one?, How many?, and Whose?.

How do you feel about your understanding of the noun complement and the adjective complement?

I understand that the noun complement or the adjective complement that follows the linking verb is not a direct object. Direct objects follow action verbs.

Are you beginning to understand the difference between active and passive verbs? What is that difference? How will you use that understanding in your own writing?

When using active verbs, the subject performs the action noted by the main verb. And when using passive adverbs, the subject is acted upon by another agent or an unknown something.

Active: Mike kissed Lisa.
Passive: Lisa was kissed by Mike.

I learned the difference in my writing and include adverbs like was and were before I use a past tense verb. Sometimes I use too much was and were and also as and are when using past tense in my work. This will help me.