Sentence examples for grammatical case from inspiring English sources
noun
A mode of inflection of a word dependent on its use, especially the syntactic function in a phrase.
- The grammatical cases nominative and accusative are used for subject resp. direct object in many languages, including Latin.
What about Russian, with its Byzantine grammatical case endings mostly sounding the same but spelt differently?
Others might even get upset about our alleged misuse of grammatical "case" (including cases such as dative and genitive that no longer exist in English).
Polyptoton, the device which repeats the same word in a different grammatical case, continues to enliven the emotional interplay in the sestet.
Grammatical case markers on nouns the word elements that indicate the role of a noun or pronoun in a phrase, clause, or sentence— are absent from nearly all Mesoamerican languages, with rare exceptions.
Because Czech uses grammatical case to convey word function in a sentence (instead of relying on word order, as English does), its word order is flexible.
In Quenya, there are many similarities in form between prepositions and adverbs since the grammatical case already determines the relation of verb and object.
Abaza, like Abkhaz, has no grammatical cases.
A student can find correct prepositions and/or grammatical cases for the given context.
For example, it can automatically select the proper verb form for the given subject-verb word pair; it can provide a list of prepositions and grammatical cases, used with the given verb; it can display a list of breakable things used with the verb to break or a list of drivable things used with the verb to drive, and so on.
In Czech, nouns and adjectives are declined into one of seven grammatical cases.
There are two genders, no grammatical cases, and a distinction between plural and singular.
