bill_r is currently reading The Prince and the Pauper.
I’m male, from Japan. I’ve been a DailyLit member since November 10, 2007. My reading interests include SF, Christian, mystery, horror, and classics.
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- The Prince and the Pauper 90% complete
- Pudd'nhead Wilson finished
- Classic Shorts: Eight Stories for Summer finished
- Who is Mark Twain? finished
- Vanity Fair finished
- There Will be Dragons finished
- The Awakening and Selected Short Stories finished
- Can Such Things Be? finished
- The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind finished
- Three Men and a Maid finished
- The Country of the Pointed Firs finished
- She Stoops to Conquer finished
- Famous Modern Ghost Stories finished
- Crome Yellow finished
- The Beautiful and Damned finished
- The Diamond Master finished
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes finished
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William Makepeace Thackeray - VANITY FAIR
I'm about to start this novel, too. Have heard a lot about it, and somewhere I have the paperback I picked up at a library sale once upon a time, but at least for the time being I'll be reading this in email installments.
How to Speak and Write Correctly - Re: Examples
Please forgive my "between in the forms", too; I meant "between the forms". Also, do you mean "their" (instead of "theirs") after "P:" in your table?
How to Speak and Write Correctly - Re: Examples
I haven't read the book yet, but judging from your table, N/P/O look like the "cases" of English: nominative, possessive, and objective.
"I saw her." =>
I = subject (nominative case)
her = object (objective case)
"That's my umbrella." =>
my = possessive form of 1st person singular pronoun.
German has one more case--the dative, corresponding in some cases to the indirect object function in English:
"I gave _her_ a present."
There is no difference between in the forms of direct and indirect object pronouns in _modern_ English (me, her, him, etc.) but in German they can be different, e.g., in the case of "I":
N: Ich, O: mich, D: mir, P: mein(etc.)
I wrote "O" for the German direct object's case but that may be wrong; it may actually be called something else; e.g., the "accusative" case in Russian is the case that generally corresponds to a direct object.
Hope this is of some help to you.