accusative case in a sentence
Examples
- This preposition functions like accusative case.
- In German, for example, accusative case is always overt on arguments with masculine gender.
- In a verbal sentence, the subject takes nominative case and the object takes accusative case.
- Nominative means it is the subject of the sentence; accusative case is used for the direct object.
- In particular, the accusative case is assigned through a structural relation between the verbal head and its complement.
- For example, support accounting for accusative case in Latin-type case marked languages could be presented as:
- The existence or nonexistence of an accusative case in Finnish thus depends on one's point of view.
- Pronouns are identical in all cases, though exceptionally the accusative case may be marked, as for nouns.
- The phenomenon of ECM makes it evident that accusative case is not necessarily assigned to the complement of the assigner.
- So an'accusative verb'is one which would have an object in the accusative case if used transitively.