Case:Subjective, Objective, Possessive

Case (from: http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/casetext.htm)

Case is the grammatical function of a noun or pronoun. The three cases in modern English are subjective (he), objective (him) and possessive (his). They may seem more familiar in their old English form - nominative, accusative and genitive. There is no dative case in modern English.

First though the good news. You cannot really go wrong here, we have shed most of our cases and as a result English is easier than many other languages because nouns and some indefinite pronouns (anyone, someone, everyone, and so on) only have a distinctive case form for the possessive. However, a remnant of old English is that pronouns have distinctive forms in all three cases and must be used with care.

The pronoun cases are simple. There are just three:-
1. Subjective case: pronouns used as subject.
2. Objective case: pronouns used as objects of verbs or prepositions.
3. Possessive case: pronouns which express ownership.

Personal Pronoun
Subjective/Nominative	Objective/Accusative	Possessive/Genitive
Referring to the subject in a sentence	Referring to the object in a sentence	The apostrophe form of the word ("Lynne's).
I	Me	Mine
You	You	Yours
He	Him	His
She	Her	Hers
It	It	Its
We	Us	Ours
They	Them	Theirs
Who	Whom	Whose

These pronouns, and who and its compounds, are the only words that are inflected in all three cases (subjective, objective, possessive). In nouns the first two cases (subjective and objective) are indistinguishable, and are called the common case. One result of this simplicity is that, the sense of case being almost lost, the few mistakes that can be made are made often, even by native speakers, some of them so often that they are now almost right by prescription.

Wire Terminology

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This is a summary distributed by AP. Read it for basic understanding of the coding in wire stories.

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Lay vs. Lie

Lay flat or lie flat video

Lay vs. Lie
	Present	Past	Participle (a form of have)
To recline	lie, lying	lay	has/have/ had lain
To put or place	lay, laying	laid	has/have/ had laid
To tell a falsehood	lie, lying	lied	has/have/ had lied

• Lay is a transitive verb and requires a direct object
• Lie is an intransitive verb and does not take a direct object
• Before lying down (no direct object) she laid the book (direct object) on the table.

· Quiz – Is It Correct?

1. I am dizzy and need to ____ down.

2. When I got dizzy yesterday, I ____ down.

3. We need to ___ this baby down for a nap.

4. The lions are _____ in wait for their prey.

5. The lions have ____ in wait for their prey.

6. I ­­­____the blanket over her as she slept.

7. I will ___ my head on my pillow shortly.

8. The dog has been _____on the back porch all afternoon.

9. The tugboat has ____on its side since last winter's storm.

10. He yelled at his dog, "_______ down!"

11. My slacker brother _______ around in bed all day.

12. Professor Rodgers ________ his papers carefully on the podium before beginning his talk.

13. The team members were so exhausted after the game they just ______ on the benches.

14. The police ordered the thieves to _______ down in the street.

15. The thieves _________ down on the pavement.

16. The thieves have _______ there for several moments already.

Quiz – Is It Correct? Answers

1. I am dizzy and need to ____ down. (lie)

2. When I got dizzy yesterday, I ____ down. (lay)

3. We need to ___ this baby down for a nap. (lay)

4. The lions are _____ in wait for their prey. (lying)

5. The lions have ____ in wait for their prey. (lain)

6. I ____the blanket over her as she slept. (laid)

7. I will ___ my head on my pillow shortly. (lay)

8. The dog has been _____on the back porch all afternoon. (lying)

9. The tugboat has ____on its side since last winter's storm. (lain)

10. He yelled at his dog, "_______ down!" (Lie)

11. My slacker brother _______ around in bed all day. (lies)

12. Professor Rodgers ________ his papers carefully on the podium before beginning his talk. (laid)

13. The team members were so exhausted after the game they just ______ on the benches. (lay)

14. The police ordered the thieves to _______ down in the street. (lie)

15. The thieves _________ down on the pavement. (lay)

16. The thieves have _______ there for several moments already. (lain)