enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Grammatical case - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_case

    The English word case used in this sense comes from the Latin casus, which is derived from the verb cadere, "to fall", from the Proto-Indo-European root ḱh₂d-. [8] The Latin word is a calque of the Greek πτῶσις, ptôsis, lit. "falling, fall". [9] The sense is that all other cases are considered to have "fallen" away from the nominative.

  3. Letter case - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case

    Sentence case "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" A mixed-case style in which the first word of the sentence is capitalised, as well as proper nouns and other words as required by a more specific rule. This is generally equivalent to the baseline universal standard of formal English orthography.

  4. List of grammatical cases - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grammatical_cases

    ^† This case is called lokál in Czech and Slovak, miejscownik in Polish, місцевий (miscevý) in Ukrainian and месны (miesny) in Belarusian; these names imply that this case also covers locative case. ^‡ The prepositional case in Scottish Gaelic is classically referred to as a dative case. Vocative case

  5. Capitalization in English - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_in_English

    In printing this is known as sentence case, where the first letter of the sentence is capitalized, and all others are lower case with the exception of proper nouns. In printing, normal sentence case may be substituted by UPPER CASE or " all caps " (all letters are capitalized), and Title Case (where the first letter of each word is capitalized).

  6. Capitalization - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization

    The capital letter "A" in the Latin alphabet, followed by its lowercase equivalent, in sans serif and serif typefaces respectively. Capitalization (American spelling; also British spelling in Oxford) or capitalisation (Commonwealth English; all other meanings) is writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter (uppercase letter) and the remaining letters in lower case, in writing ...

  7. Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of...

    Talk:1912 World Hard Court Championships – Mixed Doubles#Requested move 8 January 2022 – Fix tennis subtitles to sentence case (in whole or in part); involves MOS:CAPS, WP:NCCAPS, MOS:DASH, WP:NATURAL, WP:CONLEVEL, and other arguments – Decided to use sentence case for subtitles after dash in such sport article titles.

  8. Accusative case - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusative_case

    For example, Hund (dog) is a masculine (der) word, so the article changes when used in the accusative case: Ich habe einen Hund. (lit., I have a dog.) In the sentence, "a dog" is in the accusative case as it is the second idea (the object) of the sentence. Some German pronouns also change in the accusative case.

  9. Camel case - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case

    Camel case (sometimes stylized autologically as camelCase or CamelCase, also known as camel caps or more formally as medial capitals) is the practice of writing phrases without spaces or punctuation and with capitalized words. The format indicates the first word starting with either case, then the following words having an initial uppercase letter