By Verbs, Accusative

Hello Hela"Enough" has two usages. As an adjective, it is a synonym to "adequate" or "sufficient". As an adverb, it means "to the sufficient degree".As for "morning", "yesterday", "tomorrow", "today", and others, they can be a noun as well as an adverb. They are originally nouns, but English has...

Hello AnonAre you testing our knowledge about linguistic terms? "Ergative" is originally the term used to refer to the case of the subject in the transitive sentences of ergative-absolutive languages like Georgian and Basque. In those languages, the nouns are marked by an "ergative-case marker"...

Hello Swiss Jake, Are you a German-speaking Swiss? If yes, then this should help a bit: 'Whom' is used in the accusative case, which is very obvious in German inflections but only seen in English prounouns, e.g. him, her, us, and whom. However, where in German there are two distinctive...

At explained The particle at appears to be the goal or objective of opportunists who attempt to take advantage whenever possible. Some verbs show an endeavour to do something by the subject but we do not know if the attempt was successful or the goal was attained. The objects of some verbs...

MrPedantic wrote: What are we to make of the fact that adult native speakers often "self-prescriptivise"? Example: "Oh, hello, MrP. MissQ was just telling Randy and me – Randy and I – about L1 acquisition." MrP I read your question wrong... oops. Um, I think that does not resemble...

Instead of saying that these be the 'underlying direct object', or making the distinction between D / S structure, or an 'unaccusative verb' (presumably defined as a Verb that cannot take an Object, which is, par excellence, of accusative case ), I think it will be useful here to talk of the...

Hello, I'm a NNES who has just completed the AEC in ESL. I recently did a bit of reading on unaccusative verbs, as I have been most confused by discussions around this recently and here). I've read something about Direct Object Restriction. It says that "the surface subject of an unaccusative...

Hello AnonI'm a mere English learner from Japan and my role here is rather an asker than an answerer. But if you don't mind, I'd like you to read my ideas about your question. I take "school" in "go to school" or "church" in "go to church" as an uncountable noun. As you suggested, "school" or...

<There must be some agent that causes the melting of the ice, i.e., some heat. Interestingly intransitive verbs like "die" or "fall" are classed as unaccusative verbs, though they have no transitive counterpart. It is because, "die" in "The soldier died" for example, is not the soldier's...

Anonymous wrote:"Ergative" is the same as "unaccusative", isn't it?Yes you are right. But the term "unaccusative verbs) like dance, jump, run, talk. The difference between unaccusative and unergative verbs is whether we can take the sentential subject as the real agent or voluntary doer of the...