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Folks: Let's take a look at it from this view. George - this is a person's name, a proper noun. George is happy. - George in nominative case. He gave George a book. - George is in dative case (indirect object ) This is George's book. -
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We certainly don't want you to flunk! First, you have to know what a noun is and what a pronoun is. A noun is a person, place or thing, like a house, a dog, a pen, a computer, or the Internet. A pronoun is a word that substitutes for a noun.
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Anaylsis of the large structure: Independent clause #1 : I can not tell you that, mate, Conjunction joining two independent clauses: but Independent clause #2: what I can tell you is that it was one day before my birthday ____________________
ESL General English Grammar Questions
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califjim
364 days ago
Possessives, Prepositions, Clauses, Nouns, Pronouns, Noun Phrases, Predicates, Relative Pronouns, Nominative, Direct Objects, Indirect Objects, Determiners
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d_say: Certainly. 1) I calling his name. Juliet, from the balcony, called his name - Romeo, Romeo, where are you, Romeo? His is the possessive case of the pronoun "he", modifying "name". - His name is Romeo. My avatar is
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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
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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
ESL General English Grammar Questions
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crux_online
4 yr 4 days ago
Verbs, Possessives, Dates, Prepositions, Nouns, Pronouns, Nominative, Direct Objects, Indirect Objects, Accusative, Inflections
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Hello again, MrP (IF I may I call you MrP).
I think I understand now what you meant in the post I found confusing.
You said:
“...which implies that the subject of the <whosever/whose-ever> clause in the example is the same as the
ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum
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miriam
4 yr 90 days ago
Nouns, Constructions, Verbs, Grammar, Difference Between, Whom, Clauses, Indirect Objects, Direct Objects, Pronouns, Possessives, Translation
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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
ESL General English Grammar Questions
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hela
4 yr 302 days ago
Articles, Verbs, Possessives, Prepositions, Nouns, Pronouns, Numbers, Adverbs, Nominative, Indefinite Articles, Definite Articles, Direct Objects, Indirect Objects, Accusative
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I’m not a teacher, and oh my goodness, now I know why English teachers are worth their salt. I just can’t explain this in a simple way! I thought this question would be easy to answer but it’s not easy at all. Just because a word is commonly used
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I thought that
offering was a gerund
our was the possessive modifying that gerund
position was the direct obect of appreciate
the second you was an indirect object of appreciate.
My new question is
Is hope the main verb of the sentence
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