ENGL1007 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Nominative Case, Dative Case, Genitive Case
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Crash course in the grammar of oe: oe has a flexible word order, more than me, because it is an inflexive language. Number, case and gender in oe pronouns and nouns. Also, dual cases exist: plurals formed by adding "-as" onto the base word, adding "-an", by adding different endings "-u" ("scip" into "scipu") or "-e", and through the "i" mutation ("boc" (book) into. First and second person forms of pronouns: similar to the me versions of first person pronouns, some second person pronouns have dropped over time - such as the developed "thou". Grammatical gendered pronouns: all oe pronouns have gender, number and case, there is overlap between oe and me in the masculine pronouns. In the second person they do collapse and group ungendered but are still different to. Me and overlap with the masculine: modern english (mne) has two articles (definite and indefinite) .
