How To Use Nominative In A Sentence
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English is called a nominative-accusative language because both transitive and intransitive verbs take subjects.
Behind Bars | ATTACKERMAN
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I feel really stupid for asking this, but I really do not see the text giving any other alternative, it purely gives the nominative *ǵʰésor. which could very well be the origin of kessar.
I tripped over Pre-IE the other day
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A quick and easy example of this is Bhadriraju Krishnamurti's use of laryngeals in the 1st and second pronouns *yān 'I' and *nīn 'you' or in his view, *yaHn and *niHn1 to account for lengthening in the nominative which opposes oblique stems *yan- and *nin- lacking added vocalic length.
Archive 2009-07-01
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The nominal part of this prepositional phrase is not in the nominative case.
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It's the nominative masculine plural definite article.
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Thus in Czech, liquids are treated as moraic and both syllables show normal sonority peaks headed by the most sonorant phoneme of the group (i.e. s PIE *ḱunós 'of the dog') can only be a declined noun based on its form (because of its zerograded root *kun-) and at this stage, no derivative of "dog" can start with *kun- in the nominative or accusative cases either.
Pre-IE Syncope has an easter-egg surprise for you
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_The relative is the nominative case to the verb, when no nominative comes between it and the verb_.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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A group of women, who dislike the notion of nominative determinism and therefore eschew a title, has written to the ministry, demanding an explanation.
Patrick Galey: Why Sex Shouldn't Sell for Lebanon's Tourists
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Nouns ending in the Nominative Singular in - vus, - vum, - quus, exhibited two types of inflection in the classical Latin, -- an earlier and a later, -- as follows: --
New Latin Grammar
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The New Scientist gave it the name nominative determinism - the idea that there is a link between people's names and their occupation.
CUANAS
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The genitive, dative, and accusative are called oblique cases to distinguish them from the nominative and vocative.
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This agglutination is precisely what obscured the original penultimate accent of the bare nominative singular, making it now a word accented on the antepenultimate syllable third-to-last syllable.
Sporadic phonetic changes in the Indo-European case system
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Write in columns the nominative singular, genitive plural, gender, and meaning of: - operibus, principe, imperatori, genere, apro, nivem, vires, frondi, muri.
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As students of the language may recall, German has four cases - nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative - which see words change in order to explain their relationship to each other.
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Grounding is marked by a cluster of features pertaining to the verb and its subject, namely tense inflection, number agreement of the verb with its subject, and the nominative case of the subject.
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Even when certain verbs called denominative are derived from nominal stems, these latter are generally found to be radically dependent on other verbal forms.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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In the Cippus Perusinus, ipa is certainly in the nominative case matching corresponding nominatives ita 'that' and ica 'this' but the question is whether this pronoun's declined according to its role in the relative clause or its antecedent, tezan, which I give the value of 'cippus':
Relative pronouns in Etruscan
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As students of the language may recall, German has four cases - nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative - which see words change in order to explain their relationship to each other.
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Korean developed a nominative case marker out of a demonstrative in parallel fashion (see López-Couso/Seoane, Rethinking grammaticalization: New perspectives (2008), p.242).
Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud
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And restricting ourselves only to PIE and internal reconstruction of PIE, I've also already stated that a deictic postclitic with added support from real-world languages which do the same sufficiently explains the marked nominative in PIE without contorting the entire declensional system to eke out an ergative suffix so that you can fantasize about Hurrian links.
Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud
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Semantically, who (m) ever is the head of the sentential subject, so you might well expect the nominative case to manifest itself on who (m) ever, yielding an m-less whoever.
2009 October « Motivated Grammar
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So thank you, Mr. Callahan, for the lessons in the nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive cases.
Audrey Watters: Beyond Ratings: Teacher Evaluations Don't Tell The Whole Story
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PRO in this language can occupy a position that can be filled by a lexical NP, which is assigned dative or nominative Case, depending on the embedded verb.
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Who _plans_, and who _follows_, &c. Then _who_ is nom. to _plans_, and _who_ understood, is nominative to _follows_.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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If a relative pronoun was only about its relative clause, we should expect "who" to be declined in the nominative since it's the patientive subject of the participle formation, "was hung".
Relative pronouns in Etruscan
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The nominative case is used as the subject of a sentence or a clause.
A Short Guide to Writing About History
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It is the Gaulish cognate of Latin rex, whose stem is/reg /, as we see in forms such as the accusative singular regem and the nominative plural reges.
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The disadvantage is that the nominative singular and the nominative plural look the same and you can only distinguish by context.
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Indeed, the nominal part of this prepositional phrase is not in the nominative case; sub governs the ablative case.
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nominative noun endings
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[Footnote 1: «qua» is generally used instead of «quae» in the feminine nominative singular and in the neuter nominative and accusative plural.] «485. » «quīdam», _a certain one, a certain_
Latin for Beginners
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One of the main contributions of this thesis concerns the analysis of denominative variation causes in specialised texts.
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For instance, Q. might choose to suggest we refer to qim and to qer posts using the nominative qe, the accusative qim and the genitive qer.
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Mention one example each of verbs followed by the nominative, the accusative, the genitive, the dative, the ablative.
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In latin, a noun derived from a verb and having all case forms except the nominative.
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I, even my hands -- so Hebrew (Ps 41: 2), "Thou ... thy hand" (both nominatives, in apposition).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Sometimes choosing the nominative case sounds so formal as to be absurdly stilted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Classical Mongolian had seven cases, all clearly distinguished, in contrast to Latin: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, ablative, instrumental, and comitative.
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Nominative for Vocative.a. The use of the nominative for the vocative was a colloquialism in classical Greek.
A Grammar of Septuagint Greek
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_ Observe that the final - ă of the nominative is short, while the final - ā of the ablative is long, as,
Latin for Beginners
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No one has ever found the linguistic prototype or origin of this curious denominative in a manner that would satisfy everyone, but it is also not unremarkable that in the Gospel of John he is also called 'Judas the son' or 'brother of Simon Iscariot' and at one point even 'Judas the Iscariot' (John 6: 71, 14: 22, etc.).
Robert Eisenman: Rehabilitating 'Judas Iscariot'
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The former necessarily entail singular substances as their substrates, since individuals alone can undergo change, while the latter can directly inhere in both individual and universal substances (insunt denominative tam communibus quam singularibus - De universalibus, p. 188).
William Penbygull
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It therefore cannot be further inflected as if it were a nominative singular noun.
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_actor; _ and when it is nominative to a _neuter_ verb, it is _not_ an actor, but the _subject_ of the verb.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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Classical Mongolian had seven cases: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, ablative, instrumental, and comitative.
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They often appear without the final nominative ‘s’, as if they had been heard in conversation only in their accusative form, although in their contexts in the book they do not always serve as direct objects.
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A correlation is established and confirmed typologically, between denominative adjective and subject function, on the one hand, and adnominal genitive and the object function, on the other.
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When the participle or the infinitive is used abstractly, without an assumed subject, its attribute complement is also said to be in the nominative case; as, To _be he_ [Footnote: See footnote above.] is to be a scholar; _Being_ a _scholar_ is not _being_ an _idler_.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
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But when one of these denominative terms is present in the subject, there must be present another denominative term that follows on it necessarily which is the predicate, as in: everything walking is moving.
Arabic and Islamic Philosophy of Language and Logic
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predicate nominative
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In these cases, an examination in search of precedents is done through a classification specifically developed to the effect, rather than using the normal process applied in the same forms that for a denominative trademark.
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When _self_ is added to the personal pronouns, as himself, myself, itself, themselves, &c. they are called _compound personal pronouns_, and are used in the nominative or objective case, but not in the possessive.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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A denominative term such as ˜white™ signifies by imposition a substance that is white, but it signifies by representation the whiteness inhering in the substance.
Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy
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If the subject is nonnominative, the verb agrees with its nominative object.
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The nominal system distinguishes five cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative; the genitive and dative endings are always the same.
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If you wished to say that something happened in Asia, it would not suffice to use the simple ablative, because that form would have the same pronunciation as the nominative or the accusative, Asia (m), but the preposition must be prefixed, _in Asia_.
The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature
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It may have something to do with animacy whereby an inanimate noun (which hil is proven to be in Etruscan due to plural hilχva attested in the Liber Linteus) probably cannot be treated as the subject of a transitive verb and therefore is dethroned to a position after the verb to specify mere agent of the action instead (like a kind of 'afterthought', let's say) while still treated as an unmarked nominative noun.
Archive 2008-04-01
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As students of the language may recall, German has four cases - nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative - which see words change in order to explain their relationship to each other.
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Also referred to as "aptronyms", New Scientist journalist John Hoyland coined the term "nominative determinism" for these strange cases of people who seem inexorably drawn to their profession by virtue of their name.
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E.g. the injunction indeed a denominative verb here "Sodemieter op!" means "scram"!
Languagehat.com: SO.
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However, when studying German I was taught some grammar: so I thus learned the difference between a past tense and a past participle, and the difference between the nominative and the accusative cases.
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The accusative has thus two forms: the definite (with accusative ending) and the indefinite (the same as the nominative).
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nominative shares of stock
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The denominative verb which is to make an atonement, make reconciliation, or to purge is or Kapar.
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So, when we place a noun before a verb as actor or subject, we say it is in the _nominative case_; but when it follows a transitive verb or preposition, we say it has another _case_; that is, it assumes a new _position_ or _situation_ in the sentence: and this we call the _objective_ case.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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Sometimes, even its indeclinable adjectives had their cases: nominative singular masculine wise and accusative feminine plural wise, etc.
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It's the nominative masculine plural definite article.
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But given that it is the same in nominative and accusative cases, just like a noun, it is a little surprising that it‘s possessive is a special case, especially since its and it’s sound identical.
2007 September « Motivated Grammar
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And should it be said that the word 'knowledge' in that text denotes not the Self, but the internal organ or buddhi, we point out that in that case there would be a change of grammatical expression, that is to say, as the buddhi is the instrument of action, the text would exhibit the instrumental case instead of the nominative case 'by knowledge, and so on' (vijñânena instead of vijñânam).
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
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How about, um, the singular and plural nominative forms for the Finnish word for "girl"?
Languagehat.com: ONLINE SANSKRIT DICTIONARY.
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Like causatives and desideratives, denominatives follow the inflection of thematic verbs of the Present System.
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Generally speaking, the denominative connotes the meaning of ‘to be…,’ ‘to work as…,’ ‘to regard as…,’ ‘to desire…,’ but the real emphasis of the word is on the noun.
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I am not sure if nashaq is a denominative of the cognate noun.
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Classical Mongolian had seven cases, all clearly distinguished, in contrast to Latin: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, ablative, instrumental, and comitative.
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(Though I think this is a descriptive/nominative use, there is arguably a doctrinal reason to stick with descriptiveness: some of LEYE’s marks are incontestable and nominative fair use is not a specifically listed defense to incontestability; however, courts have used nominative fair use to find no confusion as a matter of law, so that’s not a huge barrier to applying the doctrine to incontestable marks.)
Archive 2009-08-01
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It seems that English allots its nominative and oblique forms of pronouns in terms of position, not true government as in German.
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They managed it, of course (otherwise they would have failed their exams), but at the expense of making them worry for the rest of their lives about other constructions where there was a choice between subjective and objective (also called nominative and accusative) pronouns.
Archive 2008-03-01
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The nominal system distinguishes five cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative; the genitive and dative endings are always the same.
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+_Remember_+ that a noun or pronoun used as an _explanatory modifier_ is in the same case as the word which it explains, and that a noun or pronoun used _independently_ is in the _nominative case_.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room
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But the fact that aliha is probably not an independent verbal stem but only a denominative from ilah, signifying originally "possessed of God" (cf. enthousiazein, daimonan) renders the explanation more than precarious.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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Despite any focus-derailing suppositions, my reference has clearly shown that the Korean nominative case marker, stripped of any nuance of deixis or definiteness, is still etymologically traced back to a demonstrative.
Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud
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Feminine contrasts with both masculine and neuter, not only in the nominative and accusative singular, but in the genitive and dative singular as well.
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Reproduction of the trademark's distinctive sign, if it is not strictly a denominative trademark.
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In Latin, the nominative case of first declension nouns ends in'a '.
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As a sentence, it cannot be made plural by adding the nominative plural suffix for second declension nouns.
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These would include the nominative (for the subject of a sentence), the accusative (for its object) and the genitive (to indicate possession).
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The nominal system distinguishes five cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative.
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I hardly think that kissarit "by hand" and kisseran "hand acc." are from **ǵʰsor- while nominative kessar is from *ǵʰésr̥.
I tripped over Pre-IE the other day
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A denominative term such as ˜white™ signifies by imposition a substance that is white, but it signifies by representation the whiteness inhering in the substance.
Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy
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The infinite noun functions as nominative and as indefinite.
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Indeed, the nominal part of this prepositional phrase is not in the nominative case.
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The nominal system distinguishes five cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative; the genitive and dative endings are always the same.
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Speakers began to perceive postposed *sa now as an agglutinated animate nominative suffix *-sa.
Sporadic phonetic changes in the Indo-European case system
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Early medieval Latin also allowed for the possibility of a dependent substantive clause with finite verb and subject in the nominative case.
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No one has ever found the linguistic prototype or origin of this curious denominative, but it is not unremarkable that in the Gospel of John he is also called "Judas the son" or "brother of Simon Iscariot" and, at one point, even "the Iscariot" (cf. John 6: 71, 14: 22, etc.).
Robert Eisenman: Redemonizing Judas: Gospel Fiction or Gospel Truth?
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An amusing application of such a territorial denominative system to the locality of London was narrated to me by a friend who witnessed it.
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
