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Strange! there was hardly any insinuation against this coinage which they would not tolerate and even applaud in their daily papers; and yet, if the same thing were said without ambiguity to their faces nominative case verb and accusative being all in their right places, and doubt impossible they would consider themselves very seriously and justly outraged, and accuse the speaker of being unwell.
Falkirk. 'Nominative case, first person plural, sir. 'And what's the definition of an adverb? 'Something which qualifies your suffering n'est-ce pas, Mr. Falkirk? 'Certainly, by its primary action upon your doing, Miss Hazel. We are going to Chickaree. To which statement Miss Hazel for the present made no reply.
It isn't so much you I'm thinking about. It's him." Raven, as a writer of English, paused to make a mental note that, in cases of extreme emotion, the nominative case, after the verb to be, is practically no good. You simply have to scrap it. "Who?" he inquired, in the same line of natural language. "Old Crow." Dick uttered the name in a low and hesitating tone. He seemed to offer it unwillingly.
It is a work evidently of great labor, and is devoted chiefly to the variations of the verbs; yet its lack of completeness may be judged from the single fact that the "transitions," or in other words, the combinations of the double pronouns, nominative and objective, with the transitive verb, which form such an important feature of the language, are hardly noticed; and, it may be added, though the conjugations are mentioned, they are not explained.
The Gascon troubadour Cercamon is said to have composed pastorals in "the old style." But in general, between troubadour poetry and the popular poetry of folk-lore, a great gulf is fixed, the gulf of artificiality. The very name "troubadour" points to this characteristic. Trobador is the oblique case of the nominative trobaire, a substantive from the verb trobar, in modern French trouver.
Just observe, O reader, how the expression stands in the text: "yih kahkar takht uthaya," and you will naturally ask, "where is the fault in the grammar?" The nominative, or rather the agent, is pari ne, hence the translation, "the fairy, having thus spoken, took up the throne." The poor critic seems to confound "uthaya" with "utha."
But now those words have two; and though when they wanted to say Phrygum and Phrygibus, it was absurd either to use a Greek character in the barbarous cases only, or else in the nominative case alone to speak Greek, still we say Phrygum and Phrygibus for the sake of harmonizing our ears. And so they avoided offending the ear in their verse; as the modern poets avoid it now in a different manner.
A hundred is a favorite number with the Germans and their descendants. The centeni here are a military division. Idque ipsum. Predicate nominative after a verb of calling, H. 362, 2. 2; Z. 394.
Should you find a nominative case looking out for a verb, or a fatherless verb for a nominative case, you must excuse it. It is purely extempore, though I have read and thought much on the subject." At this the company smiled, which seemed to inspire the lecturer with confidence. He plunged at once into his lecture and most brilliant, eloquent, and logically consecutive it was.
As, "The Senator was paid twenty thousand dollars for voting against the Governor"; "He was offered a third term, but declined"; "The coloured delegates were handed a lemon." Q. The use of "who" and "whom" puzzles me. Must "who" always be used in the nominative case and "whom" in the objective? A. Not necessarily. Q. I am told that it is wrong to place a preposition at the end of a sentence.
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