By Regards, Accusative

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...

At explained The particle at appears to be the goal or objective of opportunists who attempt to take advantage whenever possible. Some verbs show an endeavour to do something by the subject but we do not know if the attempt was successful or the goal was attained. The objects of some verbs...

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...

So I think we had better suspend this discussion for a while. Couldn't you agree? Yes. I couldn't agree more. (try, "Wouldn't you agree?") On a closing note, then, I'd like to add that I see your point quite clearly now: take "whom" only as a question word for DO (accusative objects). So...

Casi Thank you again as usual. As to explaining the difference between the constructs of SVOO and SVO to O, the Chomskian theory is someway persuasive (I have learned the theory through the online resources given by Professor Beatrice Santorini at Pennsylvania University). But I don't think...

Hi MrP Yeah I agree to your view that the double objects construction had been established when case inflection was still retained English. I guess you are rather special in linguistic sense. I'm a little doubtful of common English speakers in the sense of differentiating objects into dative and...