By Numbers, Accusative

Hi, As far as I know , both possessive and accusative forms can be used after a number of adjectives followed by prepositions , e.g. be bored with , be happy about , be interested in , be keen on , be concerned about, be afraid of etc.The possessive forms ( our,your ,,,) are formal and the...

Hello again,Unfortunately,I've put one part in my previous post wrongly.Sorry for that.It would be correct to use the preposition "toward" in the following part:"But,if the verb indicates motion,or in plain english,if you are :going toward, flying toward, traveling...

I'll try to give some information on this as a non-professional.This is how it looks like in the serbian language,and I suppose,it is very similar in all other slavic languages and also the latin language.For indicating a location the locative case of a noun is used.If the english language...

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...

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...

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...

Viognier wrote:I have an elementary question: what's the difference in meaning between: #1 He walked two hours. #2 He walked for two hours. I've learned that #1 is more natural. But #2 is natural too, isn't it? Hello Roro I'm sorry I am too late to answer. Today my computer has kind...

I have no intention to oppose CJ's reply. However, as long as I studied, omission of 'on' (i.e., adverbial accusative construct) seems more common at least in written documents. OED contains 381 quotes using 'next day'. 'On the next day' is contained in 11 quotes and 'on next day' is only one....

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 formal (or very...

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...