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Mr Pedantic Truly you deserve the epithet by which you identify yourself I sensed you were going to put me on the spot this way Worse still I know there is every chance that the examples I could furnish from Gonda or not won t convince you In fact in a way some of them don t convince me Take...

0 ok let s put it this way GB is nothing more than a module in the generative grammar to be put on a par with such other modules of the theory as X Case theory or the Theta Theory although it has been quite incorrectly treated as though it were the whole of the Grammar Chomsky 1995b p 30 The...

Anonymous wrote 1 Computers can listen to him speaking Why we use him not his 2 He is a 5 year s old boy lt lt the year need s The structure of your sentence is correct Him speaking is called accusative with a participle You can interpret it as Computers can listen to him who is speaking As for...

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 a peculiar usage of nouns...

Fajita 1996 says that 1 is unaccusative ergative and 2 is a middle construction 1 The suitcase easily opens up No Agent 2 The suitcase opens up easily Implied Agent Do you agree

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 when...

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 cases accusative and...

Oh yes you are quite right Katarina it s meridiem Latin accusative Apologies

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 are...

Then what about these sentences pacoWhat do you mean by Then what about these sentences paco Do you want to say you don t agree to what I wrote previously I wrote just what CGEL and my another grammar book are saying If you don t like to believe them I don t mind it What I would like to advise...