Week 16

We finally have a Tuesday without any snowy weather.  I gave out a lot of new information today.
I started out going over the verb tenses. We talked about how we describe a verb's tense by time and form.
We describe the time by using present, past and future. We have talked about this before. We describe a verb's form by using simple, progressive, perfect , and perfect progressive. I went over how to form these tenses in class. I am not going to go over the steps on the blog. The bottom of the verb chart and all of the verb anatomy sheets give instructions on how to do this. Please let me know if you have any questions. Chart N is a memory chart that has the answers for the verb "to have".

I also introduced the new sentence pattern of S-Vt-DO-OCN. This is not a very common sentence pattern. I found this chapter VERY helpful in the past. Please do try to take time to read it. I know it looks like it will take you a long time to read it, but the lesson is not very long. It should only take about 10-15 minutes to read.  The Object Complement noun renames the Direct Object and will only be in a sentence if there is a Direct Object.  You will not have an Indirect Object and an Object Complement Noun in the same clause.
Only certain verbs can take an Object Complement Noun. You can not just make on with any old verb.
Some common verbs are : call, elect, consider, name, paint, judge, choose, nominate.
The Object Complement Noun renames the Direct Object in the same way a Predicate Nominative renames a Subject.   Please let me know if you have any questions regarding this.
In the first class we talked about how to Quid et Quo nouns and pronouns without using the chart. We went through and talked about all the ways we can describe a noun and all the ways to describe a pronoun.
We did not have enough time in the second class to talk this through. We basically did the Quid et Quo sheet for a couple nouns and pronouns without looking at the chart.

Things to do this week.
1. Moms, read lesson 16.
2. Review charts E,F,N
3. Task sheet sentences from lesson 16 doing all 6 tasks if possible.
4. Call or email me if you have any questions.