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by
androjen
Sat Aug 12 2000 at 6:59:52
(After a large dose of
Pop Rocks and caffeine
, I've decided to continue with the ignoble task of imparting
Ancient Greek
grammar to Everything. Oh the shame, that I've taken four years of an entirely pointless and obscure language...)
The main use of the
accusative
case is as the
direct object
of a verb.
EX: Jane lit
Bob the Troll
on fire.
As we have direct objects in
English
, I'm not going to attempt to explain this any further. If you still can't figure it out, however
please pound the keyboard with your forehead
. Repeatedly.
Another use for the accusative is
duration of time
.
EX: The smell of burnt fur hung in the air
for a long, long, time
.
Surprisingly, this form of the accusative is actually found with
time-defining particles and prepositions
! The gods are occasionally merciful, it seems.
The next use is
place to which
, which is, thankfully, simple.
EX: Willard brought his monkey with him
to the cricket game
.
For another example, go
to hell
.
Another use is that oh so popular
apposition
.
EX:
Rampaging Marxists
attacked my cousin
Vladimir
.
I repeat,
if you can't get this one, please stop reading these writeups.
The next use of the accusative is entirely too odd. the abovelinked "
accusative with infinitive
" is a
very
common construction in Greek, used for everything from temporal clauses to indirect statements. The accusative in such cases is turned into the subject of the dependent clause, and
all words modifying that subject, be they adverb, adjective, or predicate complement, shift into the accusative.
EX: It is well known that the
main
reason
people die is
that they were born.
I know, I know,
cheap shot
for
using a clause as a predicate complement
, but it gets the point across. Besides, this is a sadly accurate reflection of what most
Ancient Greek
sentences were like. And I'm not even going to get into
dactylic hexameter
....
accusative with infinitive
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