An Introduction to Case
In English word order is used to make it clear who did what to whom. In the sentence “The dog bites the man.” It is clear who is doing the biting and who is the object of the biting. The dog is the subject of this sentence since it is the dog doing the biting. (The dog is performing the verb – in this case ‘biting’). By changing the word order “The man bites the dog” we have a rather more unusual situation. The definite article ‘the’ is unchanged, the verb ‘bites’ is unchanged, the ‘man’ and the ‘dog’ are both unchanged, but it is clear that the man has taken his revenge. Continue reading “Nouns in Nominative and Accusative Case”