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Another kind of illegitimate argument is based on analogy between one area of grammar and another. consider yet another construction where there is variation between nominative and accusative forms of pronouns: , where the subject has the form of a coordination of pronouns. This shows us not...

Hello Voxii Welcome to this Forum. I am an English learner from Japan. Here we have many native English speakers who are versed in grammar. So I think I had better wait until some of them comes to answer your question. But if you don't mind it, let me throw my two yens worth (I'm a...

Kenny wrote: All subjects and subject complements are in the nominative case ... JTT: This is simply not true of the English that is used today. =============== CGEL: There are a number of constructions where both cases are found. In most, the nominative is restricted to formal (or very...

hope / demand/ desire / want /wish (o) She hopes he comes/will come tomorrow. (x) She hopes him to come tomorrow. (o) She demands he (should) come tomorrow. (o) She demands him to come tomorrow. (o) She desires he (should) come tomorrow. (o) She desires him to come tomorrow. (?) She wants he...

??I want that you clean up your room this instant! It would not surprise me to learn that it was possible in some NAmE Englishes. Some Romance language speaking immigrants may speak it. Quote from Everything2 : The Subjunctive Mood of English After verbs which formerly used the...

OED The gerund still retains one feature of the verbal noun, namely, that of admitting of a preceding possessive case or possessive pronoun, as in "after John's behaving so strangely", "upon my readily granting it". In the literary language this construction is regularly retained with a pronoun,...

The derivational source of (1b) is a double object construction, not a dative construction and wh-movement is disallowed Doesn't a double object mean a dative object and an accusative object? Is there a special terminology called "dative construction" which only includes structure with the...

*Whom was given the book? The syntactical subject of passives usually take the direct object, which is in an accusative case, changes it into the nominative case. In the sentence, " the book" is not the subject but the direct object. The construction doesn't have an overt subject (null...

Hmm.. I'm not all that familiar but I think it might be like this: a) The vase was smashed This is a passive construction, so the grammatical subject becomes the trajector, O represents null semantic subject: O -> Vase(TR) b) The vase smashed Here there is no overt or implied cause. I...

I am not a native speaker, but I know a little about English grammar; but I sometimes have some problems with determined constructions. I would like you to answer the following questions: 1. Once I write the following phrase to a friend: I doubt you to write the article on time. He said this...