By Translation, Accusative

Hello GGI feel the English expression "superior to me" comes from a Latin phrase "me superiorem (elder than me)" where "me" is the ablative case of the pronoun for the first person singular but incidentally the same in form as the accusative "me". On the other hand "my superior" might have its...

Then what about these sentences, pacoWhat do you mean by "Then what about these sentences, paco?" Do you want to say you don’t agree to what I wrote previously? I wrote just what CGEL and my another grammar book are saying. If you don't like to believe them, I don’t mind it. What I would like...

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...

Dear teachers, What’s the syntactic name of the following structures in English ? How can I get more examples of these ? A/ 1) Sylvester cried his eyes out. 2) The dog barked him awake. 3) Dora shouted herself hoarse. 4) Well, the conclusion was that my mistress grumbled herself...