Discussions At The Garden Bench

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

Noun complements rename the subject, while adjectives describe the subject. For example (and please correct me if I have them wrong), in the sentence "Brian is a singer", [singer] is the noun complement - another identity so to speak - for Brian. But if I said "Brian is handsome" instead, I'm describing Brian, not giving him another identity.

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

It makes more sense now that I'm looking over the lesson one more time than my first read-through.

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?

Eh... kind of. I need to go back over the lesson some more. But if I understand correctly, passive verbs don't express an action, while active verbs do. Now I'm beginning to understand comments about passive sentences in my writing. Now I want to go back through and see where I can strengthen that passive writing!


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