By Nominative, Numbers

Hi,'Victory of the People' can be translated as 'populi victoria' or 'victoria populi' (the position of words is flexible in Latin, since words are inflected).However, the correct translation depends on a number of factors, such as the way you define 'people' and...

Hi ForbesYour analysis of carbon fibre cleaner and compact disc cleaner made me think for a long while. Actually, these words, their Finnish equivalents and un untold number of other Finnsh words have been spinning in my head all day.Finnish uses a lot of compounds, and I think I should mention...

Sentence: However, he was a writer with a number of plays to his credit, none of them great successes but all worthy of note. Dear teachers, my questions about the above sentence are: How do you call the function of the underlined part from the grammatical constituent’s point of view?...

You've made some very respectable guesses! (I'm convinced that there are no right answers to this question, by the way! ) The It's or It is or It was and the who are invariable in all versions of this formula. The controversy revolves around two other factors. Should the pronoun before...

Imagine a language in which: “The man hit the table with a stick” is “Copoloteko tipadela tisadure asutariki bu.” In this sentence co = a classifier indicating that we are talking about something animate polo = man te = a nominative case marker ko = the speaker wishes to emphasise the...

Hey, i'm new here. My name is Tim and I got this forum from a friend of mine. He told me that this might help me with the problem i got. I have a brother that is 16 years old and i'm 23( in the US Army). He needs help with his english. The teacher gave him the study guide, but no answer on...

Hey, i'm new here. My name is Tim and I got this forum from a friend of mine. He told me that this might help me with the problem i got. I have a brother that is 16 years old and i'm 23( in the US Army). He needs help with his english. The teacher gave him the study guide, but no answer on it. ...

What is the word sucks in "Homework sucks"? Is it a verb or an adjective? If it is a verb, what does homework suck?This brings up an excellent point, and a wonderful opportunity to discover the beautiful syntactic structure of the English language. The question at hand is "Does an English verb...

Just The Truth wrote:Kenny wrote: All subjects and subject complements are in the nominative case ... JTT: This is simply not true of the English that is used today. =============== CGEL: There are a number of constructions where both cases are found. In most, the nominative is restricted to...

CalifJim wrote:If a student points to some construction and asks me if it's the subjunctive or not, I can't reply, 'No, it's a monkey!'Now there you are wrong! You are the teacher and can say any dang thing you want! In fact a smart retort like that might go a long way toward making your...