Predicate nominatives

I received this question: My specific question is from Visual Latin 1, Lesson 25B number 20. In the sentence “Hic homo rex bonus est.”, why is the word for king in the nominative form “rex”? Why is it not the accusative “regem”? Here is...

How to diagram a simple sentence

In the book First Year Latin by Robert Henle, the author requires students to diagram sentences from time to time.  Unfortunately, there is not always sufficient explanation on how to do this. This summer, I have started a series of videos explaining how to diagram...

Oh, C’mon.

I received this email: Yesterday, a tutor talked to the parents about the importance of reviewing English grammar no matter what language they are studying.   She told us that our kids can’t give the ‘logical’ grammar terms. For example, verbs...