In Nominative^x, Accusative^x, Direct objects^x

Than ought to be used as either a demonstrative pronoun or a conjunction. In the sentence 'Jessica is prettier than me', it is being used as a conjunction. This conjunction usually occurs after a comparative adjective or adverb. In this case, it occurs after better , which is a comparative...

for name in Old English e g how English was spoken 1000 years ago was nama In the accusative it was naman

M. Caliban, The nominative and the accusative cases are the cases of the noun that is checked by the verb. Nominative case means that the noun is in the nominal form (can occupy the position of a subject). Accusative case is the objective case. 1a. He helps the girl. b.* Him helps the...

Although I'm a native English speaker, I've often struggled to understand English grammar, especially its morphosyntatical elements. I've done some reading on nominative-accusative as well as ergative-absolutive cases and I just don't get it. Can someone who's better at linguistics explain...

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 possessive form. My dog is big/I see a dog ....

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 most of the inflections that were present before...

Another kind of illegitimate argument is based on analogy between one area of grammar and another. consider yet another construction where there is variation between nominative and accusative forms of pronouns: , where the subject has the form of a coordination of pronouns. This shows us not...

Hello Roro First of all, please know that I am not a professional linguist. I learned the term "ergative verb" only a couple of years ago from a scholar on an English learners' forum for Japanese. So my knowledge is much more limited than yours. What I wrote in the previous message to the...

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, 'whom' marks for the dative case, which is often...

*Whom was given the book? The syntactical subject of passives usually take the direct object, which is in an accusative case, changes it into the nominative case. In the sentence, " the book" is not the subject but the direct object. The construction doesn't have an overt subject (null...