By Nominative, Translation

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...

An example would be, 'The regulation included monthly and hourly rates, daily rates having been omitted.' The five-word phrase at the end of this sentence comprises a participle with its own subject or nominative. I forget why it is called 'absolute'. The only book I know that mentions the...

Hi, Your sentences contain many mistakes, both spelling and punctuation ones. The first sentence is part a Christian prayer (shortened form, I put '...' where parts of the text are missing): Credo in unum Deum Patrem omnipotentem; factorum coeli et terrae, visibilium omnium et invisibilium...

Paco2004 wrote:"The farther you move away from Earth's center, the less the pull of gravity becomes" This "the" was originally "thy", i.e., the instrumental case of the nominative definite article "the" and was used to mean "by means of". Now this "the" is lexically classed as an adverb and...

"The farther you move away from Earth's center, the less the pull of gravity becomes" This "the" was originally "thy", i.e., the instrumental case of the nominative definite article "the" and was used to mean "by means of". Now this "the" is lexically classed as an adverb and OED's grammarians...

MrPedantic wrote: What are we to make of the fact that adult native speakers often "self-prescriptivise"? Example: "Oh, hello, MrP. MissQ was just telling Randy and me – Randy and I – about L1 acquisition." MrP I read your question wrong... oops. Um, I think that does not resemble...

Hi, How likely might it be that the Dative case got its name from something other than dare? Well, 'give' for Dative seems a pretty plausible theory to me, since you 'give to' someone. Now I've googled a bit, and there's lots of info availalbe for review. For example: From...