GG: OMG! You take me back to my Latin and Russian classes in high school - the cases and declinations of nouns and adjectives: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, vocative, instrumental ... and a different ending for each one in

nominative genitive dative accusative instrumental locative vocative nominative - for the subject of the sentence genitive - equivalent to "of the ...", "of a ..." or the possessive 's . dative - for the indirect

Please, can someone tell me why nominative and accusative case are called structural case??? I have really tried browsing on it but can't find anything on it. Please please please.. Dis paper is due on Monday morning. Thank you so much

Adobe have launched their new text editor Buzzword. Their Welcome to Buzzword document includes the sentence " The owner can share the document with whomever she wishes." A pity they didn't read this forum. And what's

It's using a nominative pronoun where an accusative is required. A few decades ago it started to become fashionable to have children attend school without actually teaching them anything. The teachers corrected them, " Sarah and I ",

Thank you all. I was taught that he | she | they should be used. I believe nowadays, him | her | them are more commonly used. YL, I already knew this. That's why I wrote in my first post "the accusative form seems to be used more, but

Hi Tanit, Huevos recently made an impassioned plea for the accusative on a thread, "Nominative and Objective Pronouns - - - - - - Confusing!" Did you miss it? - A. Edit. Ah, I see you're referring only to the third person. Sorry. To

What might the implied verb be? Avangi, I don't want to get into that with this sentence. For the reason why, read my point to Raen below. " Like " is a preposition so follows that rule. But to give you an idea what I mean about

Having a dispute with a poster on another forum. He posted: "To be fair, literally is misused by a lot of people, the media included. Very few people would say figuratively, unlike you or I..." I think he should have used "me"

It is not clear what you are expressing in these sentences. If you do something to someone, you need the accusative = her I saw her yesterday I wrote to her last week I made her ill by giving her bad fish to eat If someone does something, you