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** may also be an exclamatory statement | ** may also be an exclamatory statement | ||
*** ex. "No!" | *** ex. "No!" | ||
== case == | |||
* case = circumstance or situation | |||
* dictionary definition of "case" | |||
** ''Inflected forms of a noun, adjective or pronoun that express the semantic relation of the word to others in the sentence'' | |||
* in grammar, then, case is the "circumstance" of a word, how it is "situated" in a sentence | |||
** case indicates the form and relationship of certain words | |||
** case regards nouns, adjectives and verbs | |||
** "inflected" means changed or emphasized | |||
** word "inflections" are changes in a word according to chase | |||
*** ''who v. whom'', or ''I go'' v. ''he goes'' | |||
*** the change at the end of the word, its ''stem,'' is an inflection | |||
=== subjective v. objective case === | |||
* subjective = a point of view, an opinion | |||
* objective = without opinion, a universal point of view | |||
=== common errors of subjective v. objective case === | |||
* "between you and I"= incorrect | |||
** "between" is a preposition, which uses the objective case of the noun | |||
** thus it should be, "between you and me" | |||
* "she told you and I to be quiet" = incorrect | |||
** "she" = subject, "you" = the object ("she told you" or "she told me") | |||
* "who do you love = incorrect and kinda correct | |||
** "who" is an object, so should be "whom" | |||
** however, common use of this expression has made "who do you love" an idiomatic expression | |||
== Subject == | == Subject == | ||