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by herewulf
86 days ago
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> English has one case and if we try very hard we can squeeze something similar to a case - so let's say it has two This isn't a correct way to describe English grammar. You can either say it has no cases or four cases with no inflections (because it definitely has subjects, objects, indirect objects, and possessives). Presumably your native language doesn't inflect in the nominative or something like that and your English teacher once gave you your statement as a convenience fact, but the vast majority of native English speakers have never heard of grammatical case (ones who have, have typically studied inflected foreign languages). In Linguistics, it might be used to describe English and other uninflected languages (it depends). |
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+ Who/ Whose
Are two examples of something that could be considered possesive case. Although those are more words that describe possession than the possesive case.
Still good example of words changing.