ENGL 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nominative Case, Transitive Verb, Participle

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 401
• Professor: Murray Mc Gillivray

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Nominative: form used for het noun/subject and it"s plural. The plain form of a noun is always nominative. Genitive: used for the possessive form of the noun. Accusative: used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb (a verb that takes one or more objects) Dative: used to mark the indirect object of a transitive verb. The direct object is in the accusative case, the indirect object is in the dative case. The masculine se- demonstrative (feminine equivalent is s o ) Se cyning one cyning s cyninges m cyninge. Nominative and accusative plural are the same (-as ending) Nominative and accusative plural are the same (no ending) Neuter noun demonstratives are the same as the masculine ones except for accusative singular and nominative singular. Nominative, accusative plural, and accusative singular are the same (no ending) Is used for plural nominative and accusative in all three strong noun genders . Dative singular strong nouns always end in e.