Entries from BatesLine linkblog tagged with 'grammar'

Cases in Finnish

Cases in Finnish Latin has six cases (and sometimes a seventh), Greek has four, but Finnish has 14 or 15: Nominative, genitive, essive, partitive, translative, inessive, elative, illative, adessive, ablative, allative, abessive, comitative, instructive, and maybe accusative. And then there...

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Posted by Michael Bates on December 17, 2019 6:31 PM

Cases in Finnish

Cases in Finnish And you thought Latin nouns were hard to decline: Finnish has 14 cases....

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Posted by Michael Bates on September 15, 2017 1:52 PM

A Happy Medium: How to Make Your Last Name Plural This Christmas Season

A Happy Medium: How to Make Your Last Name Plural This Christmas Season Don't make Kate angry with your Christmas card. Click the link to find out how to form the plural of your last name correctly. "...I find a...

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Posted by Michael Bates on November 19, 2014 11:29 PM

10 Tips for Proper Subject/Verb Agreement • WinePress of Words

10 Tips for Proper Subject/Verb Agreement • WinePress of Words How to handle compound subjects, various pronouns and adverbs when it comes to deciding if the verb should be singular or plural....

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Posted by Michael Bates on April 24, 2012 6:20 PM

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