By Accusative, Prepositions

The preposition is indeed sometimes dropped before the days of the week in newspapers: He will arrive in Cairo Wednesday. The resultant Wednesday becomes what in some other languages is called an accusative of time. Dropping the preposition is also fairly common in informal style, which has led...

Hi, As far as I know , both possessive and accusative forms can be used after a number of adjectives followed by prepositions , e.g. be bored with , be happy about , be interested in , be keen on , be concerned about, be afraid of etc.The possessive forms ( our,your ,,,) are formal and the...

Hello again,Unfortunately,I've put one part in my previous post wrongly.Sorry for that.It would be correct to use the preposition "toward" in the following part:"But,if the verb indicates motion,or in plain english,if you are :going toward, flying toward, traveling...

I'll try to give some information on this as a non-professional.This is how it looks like in the serbian language,and I suppose,it is very similar in all other slavic languages and also the latin language.For indicating a location the locative case of a noun is used.If the english language...

Milky wrote: <I would be interested to see quotations from the early English grammarians that presented spoken English as somehow inferior, or that demonstrated an imposition of inappropriate rules from Latin. > Do you doubt that was the case? "Doubt" is too strong a word. I would be...

Also, Old English used to distinguish between Accusative and Dative as well. Now the sense of the Dative case uses the preposition "to". Thus "I gave it to her" (In Old English it would be: I=nominative; it=accusative; her=dative). Notice in Modern English "it" is the same in the nominative,...

"As brave as he is": here the second "as" introduces a clause and is therefore a conjunction. The subject of the clause is "he".If we miss out "is", then it's "as brave as him", because "as", introducing only a pronoun, has the function of a preposition, requiring an accusative form. However,...

If you think about something, you are more engaged in cogitating about it than when you only think of it. The pronoun after the preposition (of/about) may be either in possessive (his, their, your, etc.) or accusative case (him, them, you, etc.). The former is more formal.

None of these names for cases applies much to Modern English; we have neither an accusative nor a dative case and many linguists might argue we do not even have a true genitive (just a "clitic s"). Nouns have an all-purpose "base case" and a possessive form. My dog is big/I see a dog. ...

Good day, all! Read through....the question is at the end. English cases, though no longer taught as such, are still somewhat present and remnants of the cases in Old English. During the time between say, 1300 and the present, we lost most of the inflections that were present before...