By Expressions, Accusative

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,I'm really enjoying this. You're making me think. I'm going to take your points out of sequence. I think I'm still replying to your post; if I misrepresent what you're saying, please correct me. First, the summary of what I'm going to say: A lot depends on theory, and...

MrPedantic wrote: The parallel "accusative of exclamation" in Latin is sometimes explained as an ellipsis where the verb has disappeared. Thus "me miserum!" (lit. "me wretched!") might be a remnant of "(pu-to) me miserum!" (lit. "I think me wretched!"). Perhaps English expressions such as...

Doll wrote:...poor me... The parallel "accusative of exclamation" in Latin is sometimes explained as an ellipsis where the verb has disappeared. Thus "me miserum!"¹ (lit. "me wretched!") might be a remnant of "(***) me miserum!" (lit. "I think me wretched!"). Perhaps English expressions such...

'The Prince and Me' - Gramatically it's not correct but it's a movie title. Liberties can be taken with grammar for art's sake. Likewise, 'silly me' is an expression that is not correct grammatically. It would be grammatically correct to say 'I am silly.' but 'silly me' is a lot more...

Hello GGI feel the English expression "superior to me" comes from a Latin phrase "me superiorem (elder than me)" where "me" is the ablative case of the pronoun for the first person singular but incidentally the same in form as the accusative "me". On the other hand "my superior" might have its...

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...

HiI understand "anytime" is a word proper to AmE. In OED, there is no entry for "anytime". OED contains 466 quotes using "any time" but only 9 quotes using "anytime". I believe the most formal expression in BrE is "Call me at any time". But "Call me any time" is also possible. In English, time...

Hello Roro I’m now in my office and so I can't log in by my own ID Why am I frustrated? I feel the use of bare NPs as temporal adverbials is a linguistic phenomenon common to many languages. But no English grammar book gives us this sort of information in a detail enough to make us use them...

Hello paco. The construct of is of Teutonic origin. I didn't know that. Thank you. But I'd incline to take both "$200" and "a great deal" as ambiguous expressions between accusative object and adverbial objective ... if we take a diachronic perspective. But I know that this belongs rather...