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  2. Nominative case - Wikipedia

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    A special case is the word you: originally, ye was its nominative form and you the accusative, but over time, you has come to be used for the nominative as well. The term "nominative case" is most properly used in the discussion of nominative–accusative languages, such as Latin, Greek and most modern Western European languages.

  3. Grammatical case - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. List of grammatical cases - Wikipedia

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    Nominative case (1) agent, experiencer; subject of a transitive or intransitive verb: he pushed the door and it opened nominative–accusative languages (including marked nominative languages) Nominative case (2) agent; voluntary experiencer: he pushed the door and it opened; she paused active languages: Objective case (1) direct or indirect ...

  5. English personal pronouns - Wikipedia

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    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. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    By contrast, nouns have no distinct nominative and objective forms, the two being merged into a single plain case. For example, chair does not change form between "the chair is here" (subject) and "I saw the chair" (direct object). Possession is shown by the clitic-'s attached to a possessive noun phrase, rather than by declension of the noun ...

  7. Case role - Wikipedia

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    Case Characteristics Nominative: Indicates the subject, as the specifier of a finite verb [12] 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]

  8. Possession (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Possession may be marked in many ways, such as simple juxtaposition of nouns, possessive case, possessed case, construct state (as in Arabic and Nêlêmwa), [3] or adpositions (possessive suffixes, possessive adjectives). For example, English uses a possessive clitic, 's; a preposition, of; and adjectives, my, your, his, her, etc.

  9. English possessive - Wikipedia

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    The possessive form of an English noun, or more generally a noun phrase, is made by suffixing a morpheme which is represented orthographically as ' s (the letter s preceded by an apostrophe), and is pronounced in the same way as the regular English plural ending (e)s: namely, as / ɪ z / when following a sibilant sound (/ s /, / z /, / ʃ /, / ʒ /, / tʃ / or / dʒ /), as / s / when following ...