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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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Objective case in phrase you have no idea how much...
So I really don't know much about the concept of cases at all and have never had to have any kind of literacy with them (even as a TESOL teacher embarrassingly). I've been reading up on them and think I more or less get the idea but I was asked a question that I still can't really figure out.
In the sentence "you have no idea how much I love you" is the clause 'how much I love you' an objective case?
Frankly I find the idea of a sentence or clause being any particular case confusing because from what I've been reading about cases usually tells me how to identify the case of individual pronouns in a sentence not a sentence or clause in itself. I figure it makes sense to identify 'I' in 'how much I love you' as being in the objective case as it a dependent clause and therefore and object for 'you have no idea'. 'You' in 'You have no idea' would therefore be subjective right?
I feel like I've missed out on something not being made aware of cases at any point in my education in English, the person that asked me said that in her country, when they're taught English it's important that they be able to distinguish between cases.
In the sentence "you have no idea how much I love you" is the clause 'how much I love you' an objective case?
Frankly I find the idea of a sentence or clause being any particular case confusing because from what I've been reading about cases usually tells me how to identify the case of individual pronouns in a sentence not a sentence or clause in itself. I figure it makes sense to identify 'I' in 'how much I love you' as being in the objective case as it a dependent clause and therefore and object for 'you have no idea'. 'You' in 'You have no idea' would therefore be subjective right?
I feel like I've missed out on something not being made aware of cases at any point in my education in English, the person that asked me said that in her country, when they're taught English it's important that they be able to distinguish between cases.
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Isn't it wonderful that people can learn languages totally without knowing any grammar? Glad that's how I learned English! LOL When I think of "cases" it takes me back to my New Testament Greek days.
- Isn't it wonderful that people can learn languages totally without knowing any grammar?
- Glad that's how I learned English!
- LOL When I think of "cases" it takes me back to my New Testament Greek days.
- It has to do with how that particular part is used in the sentence, like the nominative case is the subject of the sentence, the accusative case is the direct object of the verb.
- org/wiki/Grammatical_case that says the accusative case corresponds to English's objective case, so maybe that term means the direct object of the verb.
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Isn't it wonderful that people can learn languages totally without knowing any grammar? Glad that's how I learned English! LOL
When I think of "cases" it takes me back to my New Testament Greek days. It has to do with how that particular part is used in the sentence, like the nominative case is the subject of the sentence, the accusative case is the direct object of the verb.
When I think of "cases" it takes me back to my New Testament Greek days. It has to do with how that particular part is used in the sentence, like the nominative case is the subject of the sentence, the accusative case is the direct object of the verb.
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