enow.com Web Search

Search results

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

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_case

    In grammar, the nominative case (abbreviated NOM), subjective case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb, or (in Latin and formal variants of English) a predicative nominal or adjective, as opposed to its object, or other verb arguments.

  3. Oblique case - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_case

    OBJ) is a nominal case other than the nominative case and, sometimes, the vocative. A noun or pronoun in the oblique case can generally appear in any role except as subject, for which the nominative case is used. [1] The term objective case is generally preferred by modern English grammarians, where it supplanted Old English's dative and ...

  4. Grammatical case - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_case

    Most English personal pronouns have five forms: the nominative case form, the oblique case form, a distinct reflexive or intensive form (such as myself, ourselves) which is based upon the possessive determiner form but is coreferential to a preceding instance of nominative or oblique, and the possessive case forms, which include both a ...

  5. English personal pronouns - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_personal_pronouns

    objective (accusative) case (me, us, etc.), used as the object of a verb, complement of a preposition, and the subject of a verb in some constructions (see § Case usage below). The same forms are also used as disjunctive pronouns. subjective (nominative) case (I, we, etc.), used as the subject of a verb (see also § Case usage below).

  6. Declension - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declension

    Whereas nouns do not distinguish between the subjective (nominative) and objective (oblique) cases, some pronouns do; that is, they decline to reflect their relationship to a verb or preposition, or case.

  7. English grammar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_grammar

    Although English has largely lost its case system, personal pronouns still have three morphological cases that are simplified forms of the nominative, objective and genitive cases: [36] The nominative case (subjective pronouns such as I, he, she, we, they, who, whoever), used for the subject of a finite verb and sometimes for the complement of ...

  8. Complement (linguistics) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complement_(linguistics)

    In many non-theoretical grammars, the terms subject complement (also called a predicative of the subject) and object complement are employed to denote the predicative expressions (predicative complements), such as predicative adjectives and nominals (also called a predicative nominative or predicate nominative), that serve to assign a property to a subject or an object: [3]

  9. Case role - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_role

    Recent research indicates nominative is distinct from ergative case [3]: p.2 Some research indicates nominative is synonymous to ergative case [3]: p.4 Accusative: Indicates the direct object, as the complement of a transitive verb [12] Lexical case associated with themes; Ex. The teacher scolded us. Dative: Indicates the indirect object of a verb