Dear dover, I realize the limitation of grammar with ''Subject (is)
Predicate'' sentence form while all kind of comparisons we use
assume ''relational statements'' like in our forum with ''better
than,,,''; ''more important than...'' etc. relations . Those can't
be expressed with ''subject - predicate '' sentence form, To put
this otherwise not everything can be expressed in terms of
properties or qualities of objects.
Take for example expression ''brother'' . Everybody thinks to know
what this expression means. But ''brother'' is not some object
with specific properties. It is actually an place in family ordering.
It depends from the extension of the family who all are brothers
and sisters. In industrial countries ''family'' is reduced to ''household''
with ''dad , mom and kids'' but in an agricultural society family is
much larger and consequently more names are invented to
name each member. I myself have no ''born brother'' but do have
many brothers and sisters in Serbia related to me via uncles , ants
etc. family of my ''dad line'' and my ''mother line''. Problem with
''names'' is that thy don't have always exact reference .
Predicate'' sentence form while all kind of comparisons we use
assume ''relational statements'' like in our forum with ''better
than,,,''; ''more important than...'' etc. relations . Those can't
be expressed with ''subject - predicate '' sentence form, To put
this otherwise not everything can be expressed in terms of
properties or qualities of objects.
Take for example expression ''brother'' . Everybody thinks to know
what this expression means. But ''brother'' is not some object
with specific properties. It is actually an place in family ordering.
It depends from the extension of the family who all are brothers
and sisters. In industrial countries ''family'' is reduced to ''household''
with ''dad , mom and kids'' but in an agricultural society family is
much larger and consequently more names are invented to
name each member. I myself have no ''born brother'' but do have
many brothers and sisters in Serbia related to me via uncles , ants
etc. family of my ''dad line'' and my ''mother line''. Problem with
''names'' is that thy don't have always exact reference .