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  • This is everyday grammar.

  • I'm Rossiya and I'm Kavee.

  • You know, I was bored the other day and I wrote a song.

  • The title is My dog is fluffy Okay or cute?

  • No fluffy.

  • It has more mass appeal, in my opinion.

  • Well, in my opinion, you're using a very common sentence pattern in English.

  • Ah, that's true.

  • Subject.

  • Be subject complement.

  • Exactly.

  • And one way to get better in English is to study common sentence patterns.

  • Subject plus B plus subject complement is a very common sentence pattern.

  • Like my dog is fluffy.

  • Okay, but before we go any further, we should explain what a subject complement is.

  • Well, a subject complement is a word or phrase that describes or identifies the subject.

  • A subject complement is either an adjective, a noun or pronoun, so the subject complement in the sentence.

  • My dog is Claffey is fluffy because it describes the dog.

  • Men is a policeman.

  • He is sad.

  • There might be sentences that appear to be more complicated, but they to use the same basic structure.

  • In those cases, you just need to recognize that the sentence has more information.

  • That lie is burnt and crispy.

This is everyday grammar.

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