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What is the subject of your dreams?
Ahh…!! Subject?? …syntax! Of course it's syntax!
Is it? Why should that be a subject? Can you prove it? Give me at least three valid arguments!
Why? …err… why?
Why should it be? Because you say so?
By that reasoning you could claim that I am a flying horse but why should we believe you?
Come on! Try! At least one good argument!
No… please! I don't want to have an argument with you!
So stop arguing with me and just what I say.
Go to page fifty six and now page one hundred and twenty five
and now thirty eight - thirty nine; can you read number 7 then?
Cože? Prší?? To prší?? Ono prší???
To tak leda nìkomu na maják kape, šplouchá, ne prší.
Jestli se takhle orientujete ve skriptech tak to nevim.
Please! Not the example number seven, read the heading number seven! What does it say?
- Subject! - Right.
Now take a good look at it. And try to think: Why should "syntax" be the subject?
You know it is. So how do you know it?
Because it is in the right position? Or does it invert in questions?
I don't know, I'd say it's perverted without any question.
Perversion? Maybe a lot of fun but not always with subjects and it won't help you at the exam above all, nó?
Can't we just drop this subject?
I'm afraid we can't, you see, this is not a pro-drop language anymore, is it?
Come on, it's not so hard. Find inversion on page forty three.
Look at the arrows above the example number 18, can't you see it?
I'm getting there! Just be patient!
What? How could I be a patient? You really mean I'm the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent
but which is directly involved in or affected by
the happening denoted by the verb in the clause? Hm?
What?!?
Well yes! Once more - you can claim anything, you can say that the sun is green and the grass is pink
and your grandmother flies around on a golden pig...
but even if it all were truth, it is not a science
unless you can support those claims with some arguments.
And we are playing science here, no?
So if you don't want to fail the course eventually,
you'll have to wake up and smell the coffee. Just wake up! Wake up...