Begin by drawing an isosceles triangle ABC:Now I'll draw a green line AD, from the top vertex A to the bottom side BC, but not perpendicular to BC, meeting BC at D, like this: The two sides AB, AC, of the big isosceles triangle are congruent. The green line AD is congruent to itself. The base angles B and C of the big isosceles triangle ABC are congruent. Therefore we have a case of SSA with triangles ABD and ACD. That is, two sides and a nonincluded angle of one triangle, ABD, are congruent to the corresponding two sides and angle of a second triangle ACD. However they are not congruent since AD is not perpendicular to the base BC. Therefore the two angles at D are supplementary but not congruent. ------------------------------------------------------------------ However, the following version of the SSA theorem can be proved: SSA Theorem: If two sides and a nonincluded angle of one triangle are congruent to the corresponding two sides and angle of a second triangle, then the triangles are either congruent or else the angles opposite the congruent sides are supplementary. Edwin