By Genitives, Nominative

Hello MaraI myself want to know why it is so. My guess is that this tendency has its origin in the grammar of Old English that was spoken by English people a millennium ago. The Old English was a language very similar to the present day German. One of its features was that nouns and adjectives...

Can someone just clarify what I believe to be true: 'Who' is the nominative form, while 'Whom' is the form in all other cases (accusative, dative, genitive (though 'whose' can also be used for genitive), etc.) - is this correct?

"It won't be he who gets fired" is correct. In English we have only three cases: nominative, objective, and genitive (possessive). All subjects and subject complements are in the nominative case and all objects are in the objective case. (The genetive case doesn't enter into this...

Does that mean that or (in the genitive) are pronounced just like and in the nominative? I was once told (NOT by a native speaker of English) that even when the 's' is not added in writing, it is still pronounced.

Deepa, I totally agree with you! As examples always enlighten a lot, I'll give you some impressions of my mother tongue German: I have to say that English in many cases is simpler than my native language. You mentioned e.g. the gender of a noun which is usually expressed by the article. In...

I am currently studying Russian and I am finding it very hard to learn without a good basic knowledge of english grammar (which sadly was not on my school curriculum). What I would like is an easily understandable way to learn the different cases ie: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative,...

No apostrophes anywhere! All the forms you mentioned are nominative-plural forms and no forms of the genitive case.