By Accusative, Nominative

Having a dispute with a poster on another forum. He posted:"To be fair, literally is misused by a lot of people, the media included. Very few people would say figuratively, unlike you or I..."I think he should have used "me" at the end of that sentence but his argument...

It is not clear what you are expressing in these sentences.If you do something to someone, you need the accusative = herI saw her yesterdayI wrote to her last week I made her ill by giving her bad fish to eat If someone does something, you need the nominative: sheShe wrote to me last week.She...

Hi,The short answer would be: such question are dangerous, try and learn them by heart! The long answer is: in Latin, they have different inflected forms because they belong to two different "classes": 2nd declension and 3rd declension:Fungus (same inflected forms in...

Oh, I did a mistake here. Surely it is prepositional case rather than nominative in slavic languages, or most of them.

Oh, thanks a lot!In addition I would like to know, is every verb of movement concerned with tense this way?

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...

Hi ForbesYour analysis of carbon fibre cleaner and compact disc cleaner made me think for a long while. Actually, these words, their Finnish equivalents and un untold number of other Finnsh words have been spinning in my head all day.Finnish uses a lot of compounds, and I think I should mention...

"He" is nominative; "Him" is accusative - the first is the subject, the second is the object. So in "He is the best player", he is the subject of the sentence; in "The best player is him", the best player is the subject.

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...

Consider Case Theory (you using the S / D Structure distinction), given VP internal subject hypothesis. VP Therefore, due to the syntactic requirements that the lexicon imposes (DP singularity, Case, VP Tenses, etc.), everything originally in the VP is moved out of it, leaving only traces...