In Nominative^x, Accusative^x, Possessives^x

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...

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 personal pronoun is = fintie verb so = adverb of...

More accurately, that's the second person singular pronoun. 'Thou' corresponds to 'I/you/he/she'. (Nominative) 'Thee' corresponds to 'me/you/him/her'. (Accusative) 'Thy' corresponds to 'my/your/his/her'. (Possessive) 'Thine' -- 'mine/yours/his/hers'. It's an archaic form, and its status...