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Hi Tanit, Huevos recently made an impassioned plea for the accusative on a thread, "Nominative and Objective Pronouns - - - - - - Confusing!" Did you miss it? - A. Edit. Ah, I see you're referring only to the third person. Sorry. To my ear, there's no difference between first...

Imagine a language in which: “The man hit the table with a stick” is “Copoloteko tipadela tisadure asutariki bu.” In this sentence co = a classifier indicating that we are talking about something animate polo = man te = a nominative case marker ko = the speaker wishes to...

Hello Roro Yeah, you are right. The quantifiers in Japanese behave in very peculiar ways. " Kare-wa sanko-no ringo-wo tabe-ta " is " He ate three apples ". " Kare-wa ringo-wo sanko tabe-ta ". How would you translate it into English? To me the isolated " sanko " sounds like an adverbial noun....

??I want that you clean up your room this instant! It would not surprise me to learn that it was possible in some NAmE Englishes. Some Romance language speaking immigrants may speak it. Quote from Everything2 : The Subjunctive Mood of English After verbs which formerly...

...whether they just don't fuss about grammar... BrEs on the whole tend to take the Marlon Brando approach to fussing – 'What are you fussing about?' 'What have you got?' – but I'd say that this particular usage (object pronoun + ING) isn't among the more fussed-about. (Which is...

Hello Casi Thank you for the message. Speaking frankly I'm still in the mud of this question. I've thought about it since I put the last posting. One of the problems we, ESL learners, (or I should say at least me) have is that we tend to try to understand English sentences through the...

I'm studying grammer and I can't get a handle on the difference between Nominative and Accusaitve pronouns. Any help greatly appreciated.