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  2. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    In addition, a few English pronouns have distinct nominative (also called subjective) and oblique (or objective) forms; that is, they decline to reflect their relationship to a verb or preposition, or case. Consider the difference between he (subjective) and him (objective), as in "He saw it" and "It saw him"; similarly, consider who, which is ...

  3. Oblique case - Wikipedia

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    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

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    Languages are categorized into several case systems, based on their morphosyntactic alignment—how they group verb agents and patients into cases: Nominative–accusative (or simply accusative): The argument (subject) of an intransitive verb is in the same case as the agent (subject) of a transitive verb; this case is then called the ...

  5. 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.

  6. English relative clauses - Wikipedia

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    The grammatical case of a relative pronoun governed by a preposition is the same as when it is the direct object of a verb: typically the objective case. When the relative pronoun follows the preposition, the objective case is required, as in "Jack is the boy with whom Jenny fell in love." while *"Jack is the boy with who Jenny fell in love"

  7. Trump could be offered second state visit to UK, Telegraph ...

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    Downing Street and the Foreign Office are preparing to offer the incoming U.S. president an invitation once he is back in the White House, the report said, without citing specific sourcing. The ...

  8. Morphosyntactic alignment - Wikipedia

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    For either alignment, two core cases are used (unlike passive and antipassive voice, which have only one), but the same morphology is used for the "nominative" of the agent-trigger alignment and the "absolutive" of the patient-trigger alignment so there is a total of just three core cases: common S/A/O (usually called nominative, or less ...

  9. Why Bill Belichick to North Carolina isn't a totally wild idea

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    The difference between now and the past is that such a decision is available not simply to 16-to-18-year-old high school recruits, who are also easily swayed by things like jersey colors ...