Best debater award

[DinoDoc]

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by skywalker


Huh? In the sentence "I am a furry", "furry" is the object, isn't it?

Its a subject complement, i.e not an object

[Kuciwalker]

ok... you win

I have no idea what a "subject complement" is.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by skywalker


Not "I am furry", "I am a furry". "Furry" as in "stefu"

It's a predicate - it's including you in the class of furries.

If you said, "I am Stefu" that is an identity statement.

[Dauphin]

Skywalker gets my vote for best debater.

[Agathon]

[The Emperor Fabulous]

How shameless...trying to prove debating prowess in a thread about the best debater

[Agathon]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous
How shameless...trying to prove debating prowess in a thread about the best debater

Blame Sky - he started it. BC and I just felt it was our duty to lift him out of his pit of ignorance.

[Kuciwalker]

I wasn't trying to start a debate, I just felt the need to be an obnoxious grammar nazi

[Elok]

Was I mentioned? I would check myself, but I have but a limited time before the nectar of the gods wears off and I become a mere human once more. I must press my advantage while it lasts, typing quickly but with utterly precise punctuation. Everyone knows, after all, that the most convincing thing about a poster is whether he is so thoroughly hard-arsed as to check the spelling of each and every individual word before clicking the little button and consigning his electronic legacy to the ages.

I typed that too quickly! The elixir wears off! I must hasten away, ere break of day, to win my gold from smaug-oh wait, he's already dead, the sullen dude from laketown killed him. In that case, I should probably apologize to Sky if I offended him in that Make up your Own Hell thread where I tried to be wry but apparently came off as a bigot to some people. Let that serve as a lesson to all: don't try to be rye, you only get carawayed.

[Elok]

Oh, and Furry is in fact the object of the given sentence; specifically, the direct object. If you were to say, "I gave Stefu a Furry," Furry would be the direct object, Stefu the indirect object. The predicate as such is "gave stefu a furry," i.e. all but the subject and any modifiers thereof.

[loinburger]

Yes, if you change the sentence in question to a completely different sentence wherein "furry" is the direct object, then "furry" becomes the direct object of the sentence.

[Agathon]

Loinburger is right. Somebody vote for him. Elok should, since Loinburger just showed him up.

[loinburger]

Admittedly, I'm not a very good debater. I'm just halfway decent at being a dickweed.

[Elok]

To hell with you, your legalistics, and all subsidiaries thereof!

Even without the added indirect object "stefu" and the altered verb, which were added merely as a gesture of pretentiousness and scholarly posturing, "I am a furry" consists of subject/noun "I," verb "am," "furry," the object of the verb "am," and "a," which is an article-type adjective modifying the direct object "furry." I am right, you fat-cat bureaucrats!