"CyberCypher" (Email Removed) schrieb im Newsbeitrag "Mike Lyle wrote on 27 May 2004:" Yep, four cases and three genders, each with its own set of articles; and endings for adjectives depending on case, gender and article (definite, indefinite or non-existent). We learned the cases as nominative...

Anonymous “Please show me a table/chart type w h ich indicates case of nouns;nominative;genitive;dative;accusative;ablative showing examples of use ” This is an English forum. English does not mark nouns for case. There is no chart indicating the "case of nouns" for the English...

Option #1 (accusative): Well, if you're gunner get technical , it shir is, but did you notice how you spoiled everyone's fun there? (Rising inflecsion) Option #2 (ablative): What is this? alt.usage.latin? Huh? Huh?

It declines. Latin has its words defined by delclentions... Nomanite, Vocatice, Accusative, Genitive Dative and Ablative. There are rules as to the behaviour of each of these declentions, as mentioed by our leared colleague Paco. I believe status to be a first declention word - masculine.

Have we considered thoroughly enough the possibility that what is to blame for this conundrum is the poverty of terminology for talking about such structures. I mean, why should it have to be either a participle or a gerund? Just because textbooks don't use a term like "geriple" or "particiund"? If we...

Hi, I'm fine with these: If I were you ..., If I were my sister ..., If I were John ... But how about " he ", " she ", " they "? Would you recommend that I use the nominative case If I were [he | she | they ], I would ... or the accusative one? If I were [him | her ...

Thank you all. Yoong Liat “ I was taught that he | she | they should be used. I believe nowadays, him | her | them are more commonly used. ” YL, I already knew this. That's why I wrote in my first post "the accusative form seems to be used more, but some insist that the nominative...

"I think that the German is more logical; why should we using the dative case in our example?" Strictly speaking English has no dative, only an accusative form that is only noticeable with certain pronouns. I suspect tha what was happening is that ther was a grammatical transition underway with pronouns...

The forms that you call "fixed" are, in fact, the declined forms for the pronouns. Just because they do not look alike, that does not mean that they are not declined. For example, the Spanish first person nominative pronoun is yo , but the first person accusative pronoun is me . They do not...

jason7377 “In this sentence why is whom used instead of who? It is I who is knocking at the door.” I think you're asking why 'who' is used and not 'whom'. The answer is that 'who' is a nominative case pronoun which in a relative clause functions as the subject...