This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...are mine," the genitive denotes the genus, of which "mine" is the species. The dative case is what is given--from do,1 dedi, datum, dare, to give. It is so called because it follows frequently verbs, or other parts of speech which mean giving, or some act directed to the object--generally indicated in English by to or ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...are mine," the genitive denotes the genus, of which "mine" is the species. The dative case is what is given--from do,1 dedi, datum, dare, to give. It is so called because it follows frequently verbs, or other parts of speech which mean giving, or some act directed to the object--generally indicated in English by to or for. The accusative case is probably so called from a Latin mistake, the Greek original meaning (1) cause and (2) accusation; the Latins took it in sense (2) instead of (1). Possibly the Romans regarded the objective, as confronted with the agent, like an accused person 1 From the verb do, dedi, datum, dare, to give, we have the date of an event, and data to go upon or to reason from. Also a donor (from donum, a gift), one who gives presents, donations; also (from do, dotis, a marriage portion) dowry, endowment, condonation, and pardon, which is granted by a superior, as when a king pardons a criminal. with the prosecutor. In English this is called the objective case--the case on which the action of the verb falls--and regarded as the object or mark aimed at by the action of the verb. The vocative or exclamation case--from L. voco,1 to call--is the case of a word when the person or thing is addressed or called. We have in English only the nominative of address. Ablative is the sixth case of a L. noun (composed of 06, from, and latus, carried), the case denoting among other things ablation, or carrying away from, as if it indicated taking away from, or privation. The verb itself is fero, tuli, latum, ferre, to bear, to lift up. It is from the supine latum5 that "ablative," as we have said, is derived. These case names are unnecessary in English, which has only one inflected case--the genitive. The uninflected cases cons...
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