99 Red Balloons
If I could find a souvenir,
just to prove the world was here,
and here it* is a red balloon
I think of you, and let it go
*(Goldfinger cover)
It’s it
What is it?
It’s it
What is it?
Faith No More
Epic
The Real Thing
it (pronoun)
1. Used to refer to that one previously mentioned.
(a souvenir, it)
Can you feel it, see it, hear it today?
If you can’t, then it doesn’t matter anyway
Faith No More
Epic
One of these things is not like the others
Sesame Street
One of these Things
One of these things just doesn’t belong
Sesame Street
One of these Things
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
Sesame Street
One of these Things
Think about direction
Wonder why you haven’t before
R.E.M.
Stand
This is so damn simple yeah
It’s so damn simple
Snow Patrol
Empress
ABC
Easy as, one, two, three
The Jackson 5
ABC
I do think it a tragedy, however, that government school children are left in the dark about the existence of influential groups with complex social agendas aimed at their lives. 1
John Taylor Gatto
The Underground History of American Education
We just want to dance here,
someone stole the stage
Starship
We Built This City
once you get into cosmological shit like this,
you got to throw away the instruction manual
It
Stephen King
Well, he said one thing before I graduate
‘Never let your fear decide your fate’
Awolnation
Kill Your Heroes
Philosophy, is the talk on a cereal box
Religion, is the smile on a dog
I’m not aware of too many things
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
What I Am
So I pull my collar up and face the cold,
on my own
The Smashing Pumpkins
Thirty-Three
THE PURE COPULA
The pure copula connects subject and predicate. Because of its relation to logic, nothing else in general grammar is so necessary to understand as the nature and functions of the pure copula.
The pure copula is is a strictly syncategorematic word which asserts the relation
between a subject and a predicate, both of which are categorematic. It is to be noted that in general grammar, as in logic, the pure copula is neither the predicate nor a part of the predicate, but is completely distinct from the predicate. The predicate itself is equivalent in the broad sense to a subjective complement which completes the pure copula.
Every simple declarative sentence is made up of subject, pure copula, and predicate. 2
The Trivium
Sister Miriam Joseph
Your mind won’t be still
It may not again
You don’t think it will
But it will, it will
Snow Patrol
Empress
Notes & References:
- The Underground History of American Education
↩︎ - The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric
BY SISTER MIRIAM JOSEPH, C.S.C., Ph.D
↩︎
Songs:
Faith No More – Epic
Sesame Street – One of These Things
R.E.M. – Stand
Snow Patrol – Empress
The Jackson 5 – ABC
Starship – We Built This City
Awolnation – Kill Your Heroes
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians – What I Am
The Smashing Pumpkins – Thirty-Three
Nena – 99 Red Balloons
Goldfinger – 99 Red Balloons