http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aIndirect+Objects+tag%3aAccusativeSearch results for 'tag:Indirect Objects tag:Accusative' matching tags 'Indirect Objects' and 'Accusative'en-USXMOD (Build: 3715.30106)http://www.englishforums.com/English/AboutTheMeaningOfWhere/2/zlphk/Post.htm#476241Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:11:58 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:476241velimirI'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 had similar declension of nouns then the nouns following the prepositions "in" and "at" would be in the locative case.The presence of the preceding preposition is obligatory when the noun is in the locative case. But,if the verb indicates motion,or in plain english,if you are : going to, flying to, traveling to.. like in the question given in the opening post,then the noun will be in the dative case.This case you can connect...http://www.englishforums.com/English/GrammaticalCasesEnglish-Language/bppdn/post.htm#161813Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:33:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:161813anonymousNone 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 . (base) My dog's bed is in the corner. (possessive) Some pronouns have a "subject case" (a true nominative) and an "object/instrumental case" which indicates the direct/indirect object or is required after prepositions. He likes that dog. (subject) The boy sees him . (object - direct object) The boy gives him the book. (object - indirect object) JJM The boy gives the book to him . (instrumental - indirect object).http://www.englishforums.com/English/GrammaticalCasesEnglish-Language/bppdn/post.htmWed, 23 Nov 2005 00:08:50 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:161615crux_onlineGood 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 1300, but some of the words -- particularly the possessive pronouns -- retained their inflections. The four cases of Old English are: Nominative Genative Accusative Dative/Instrumental The Nominative case gets its name from the idea that it is the 'naming' case. It identifies the subject of the sentence by name. The Genative case gets its name by pointing out the 'genesis' of the noun. "Brother of mine", "Goblet of...http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhomWasGivenTheBook/2/pxwp/Post.htm#78555Sat, 05 Mar 2005 03:53:46 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:78555paco2004Hello 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 was given the book?" but we cannot say "who did you give the book?". The rule seems to lack some kind of balance between active and passive voices. By the way, reading OED, I have found an interesting fact. That is, through the history of the English language, the dative interrogative 'whom' has been used almost always with combination of a preposition. Please take a look at the quote if you like. whom the objective case of who: no longer current in natural colloquial speech. 1. In an...http://www.englishforums.com/English/ThePopularWhoWhom/pxjz/post.htm#77906Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:11:02 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:77906equivocalBoth 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, 'whom' marks for the dative case, which is often the noun in the place of the indirect object or after a preposition. So the subject takes the nominative case, the direct object the accusative case and the indirect object the dative case: Mary gave the book to Jane. SUBJ DIRECT OBJ IND. OBJ nom. acc. dat. You are waiting for whom nom. dat. So, sentences 1a and 2a start out as: 1b) You are waiting for whom 2b) You are looking at...http://www.englishforums.com/English/SentenceAnalysis/xzdm/post.htm#70661Fri, 28 Jan 2005 19:30:50 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:70661helaHello 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 personal pronoun is = fintie verb so = adverb of intensity pretty = predicative adjective a = indefinite article girl = noun b) function: she = subject (NP) is = copular verb (VP) so pretty a girl = subject-complement (?) (NP?) 2) He is too bright a student to study with me. a) parts of speech: he = nominative personal pronoun is = finite verb too = adverb of intensity bright = predicative adjective a = indefinite article student = noun to study = non-finite verb with...http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheAccusitiveCase/clzr/post.htm#13362Tue, 18 Nov 2003 19:16:28 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:13362mike a.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 misleading in a simplified grammar like English's.) Unlike German, English doesn't really have a well-developed Dative or Accusative case. We used to have those cases at an earlier stage of the language's development, but now those cases are only vestigial. Our "allgemein" Objective case, where it exists at all, performs both Dative and Accusative functions. What gives you the difference in meaning is generally word order. For example, in the sentence "I gave him a spoon" -- which in...http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheAccusitiveCase/clzr/post.htm#13316Tue, 18 Nov 2003 01:24:11 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:13316whl626" 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 when it is the indirect object of a verb or is connected with the indirect object. " I will help her " ( ' her ' is the pronoun in the accusative case ) " She will help me " ( ' she ' is the pronoun in the nominative case ) because the pronounce is placed as the subject of the verb whereas ' her ' is in the object of the verb.