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Amy, I hope I can take advantage of this post to ask you to go into more detail.Long ago, I was told in this forum that sentences like "You're taller than me" & "You're taller than I" (omitting "am") shouldn't be used.Shame on me ... I use the first...

Generally speaking, the subject of a sentence, where the subject is the agent of the action of the sentence, is the "external argument". Other noun phrase arguments of the sentences (particularly the direct object, also called the accusative) are referred to as the...

Hello, peopleAs you see I have some difficulty in understanding classes of verbs, especially if they are connected to one another.The classes of unaccusative verbs and unergative verbs are a bit confusing to me.According to thier definition, unergative verbs are monadic verbs which have 1...

The answer to your question depends on how the answerer defines passive. As I is not the object of any action in the sentences, many think that the sentences are active and the verbs prepared and finished are adjectival. However, structurally the sentences are in the passive voice as both contain...

MrPedantic wrote: The parallel "accusative of exclamation" in Latin is sometimes explained as an ellipsis where the verb has disappeared. Thus "me miserum!" (lit. "me wretched!") might be a remnant of "(pu-to) me miserum!" (lit. "I think me wretched!"). Perhaps English expressions such as...

Doll wrote:...poor me... The parallel "accusative of exclamation" in Latin is sometimes explained as an ellipsis where the verb has disappeared. Thus "me miserum!"¹ (lit. "me wretched!") might be a remnant of "(***) me miserum!" (lit. "I think me wretched!"). Perhaps English expressions such...

Than ought to be used as either a demonstrative pronoun or a conjunction. In the sentence 'Jessica is prettier than me', it is being used as a conjunction. This conjunction usually occurs after a comparative adjective or adverb. In this case, it occurs after better, which is a comparative...

M. Caliban, The nominative and the accusative cases are the cases of the noun that is checked by the verb. Nominative case means that the noun is in the nominal form (can occupy the position of a subject). Accusative case is the objective case. 1a. He helps the girl. b.* Him helps the...

Although I'm a native English speaker, I've often struggled to understand English grammar, especially its morphosyntatical elements. I've done some reading on nominative-accusative as well as ergative-absolutive cases and I just don't get it. Can someone who's better at linguistics explain this...

Hello Jim, The noun after the verb is to be in nominative case and not in accusative. "I think you mean this to be true in the case of a pronoun after a linking verb only. Taking your "rule" literally, we must have They invited we." You might have known I was speaking specifically...