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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 pro noun after a linking verb only. Taking your "rule" literally, we must have They invited we." You might have known I was speaking...

Hi CJ The reason some 'Latinists' may object to it's me is the fact that the verb to be is intransitive and thus can't take an object. Me , however, is generally known as the object form of I . They invited we is a different matter because invite is a transitive verb and can take an object. Don't...

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 pro noun after a linking verb only. Taking your "rule" literally, we must have They invited we. because the pronoun is after the verb, the conditions under...

The noun after the verb is to be in nominative case and not in accusative. Nothwithstanding, in speech everybody puts the noun in accusative. (demise of the language)

Any more? I honestly don't know. The book isn't organized that way. My comments were based on a few of her interspersed remarks, references, and footnotes throughout the book. The book is basically a list of verbs classified into groups on the basis of which transformations they can...

<...adverb...> That's a useful test. (Though I can imagine saying "Did it sell?".) "Middle voice" troubles me because it's used in Greek for a reflexive form, as in "I wash myself"; also for "I do X for my own benefit" (now why don't we have that one). I remember reading somewhere...

Beth Levin (English Verb Class and Alternations) calls this the middle construction. She mentions another construction -- alternation between causative and inchoative -- with the notation that another name for this one is "ergative". She lists "sell" as impossible in the...

The various forms of phrasal verbs Phrasal verbs can be transitive or intransitive, separable or inseparable. The object or accusative can in the cases of separable phrasal verbs be placed before or after the particle. With inseparable phrases, the object/accusative is fixed and its position...

Sorry guys, you've lost me with your S and D structure terms. What exactly is an S or D structure? The accusative idea seems feasable I'll understand better when I know what D and S are, though. Personally, I like to think of words like make, let, leave, help and the verbs of passive perception...

Hello guys Thank you for the replies. All of them are very helpful to me in thinking the problem. I think I had better explain the question more in detail. Actually the questioner asked at first the semantic difference between "He made her sing" and "He told her to sing". So, at first I explained...