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

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

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

Hello People I'm fascinated with your discussion. One might take "who was given the book?" as a wh-question obtained by changing the subject to 'who' in "he/she was given the book". But I still feel some oddness in the rule that we can say "who

Both are ok. But if you wanted to be really proper and old-fashioned you'd say: 1a) Whom are you waiting for? 2a) Whom are you looking at? To explain why this is the case might be abit more complicated, bear with me: As you already know,

Hello everyone, I like to do sentence analyses, so if you could sometimes send us some exercises on the matter they will be very welcome. A/ Here is MY analysis: 1) She is so pretty a girl. a) parts of speech: she = nominative

The first thing to note is the spelling: the correct spelling is a-c-c-u-s-a-t-i-v-e. Another thing to note is that the term often employed to identify the "case" of words like "him", "her" and "whom" is Objective, rather than Accusative (which is

" I sent her a postcard. " ( ' her ' is the pronoun in dative case ) because " I sent her " is not a complete sentence that you need an object ' a postcard ' to form a complete sentence. dative = the form of a noun, a pronoun or an adjective