Vne was liable to corruption because of the hyperbaton with Rufe in the next line, and because of the rarity of the vocative of unus.
The former is used only before the vocative case, and never has a mark of exclamation, or indeed any point, placed immediately after it.
Whether a comma or a mark of exclamation ought to be used after the vocative case, depends entirely on the degree of emphasis with which the words would be spoken.
A comma is placed after a noun or a pronoun in the vocative case, if a mark of exclamation be not used, or be reserved till the first distinct pause in the sentence.
It does not here seem to lose its vocative character, although the name of the thing or person addressed may not readily be supplied.
Its vocative character is not lost when the person or thing addressed is not named, for it may be understood.
FN#249] Here thevocative Yá is designedly omitted in poetical fashion (e.
The English-speaking races neglect thevocative particle, and I never heard it except in the Southern States of the AngloAmerican Union=Oh, Mr. Smith.
The popular necessity has resulted in the vulgar vocative use of Lady, but the same use of Gentleman has not even a vulgar success, though it is not unknown.
The Latin and Greek grammarians, therefore, made this interjection the sign of the vocative case; which case is the same as the nominative put absolute by address in English.
The vocativetakes no article: it is distinguished thus: O Pedro!
The vocative case, in some grammars, is wholly omitted; why, if we must have cases, I could never understand.
The vocative takes no article; it is distinguished thus: O Pedro, Oh Peter!
In Latin there are six cases namely the nominative the genitive the dative the accusative the vocative and the ablative.
The interjection of wishing, earnestness, or vocative address, is O.
Versification," account of, and strictures on Vision, or imagery, explainedVocative case of Lat.
The vocative singular is like the nominative, as, caraid m.
The Vocative is employed when a person or thing is addressed.
The vocativeplural is like the nominative plural; as, duine m.
The vocative plural is like the nominative plural, terminating in a, but seldom in an; as, fear m.
In the vocative singular and plural the aspirated form alone is used, except in nouns beginning with a lingual, which are generally in the primary form, when preceded by a lingual; as, a sheann duine old man.
The laws of accent bearing on this circumflexed vocative are so simple that I thought they would have been understood by everybody.
Taking our position on the fact that change of accent in the vocative in Greek is due to the continued influence of an older system of Aryan accentuation, we now see how the change of nom.
Of the seven Slavic cases, only the nominative and vocative remain to it; all the rest being supplied by means of prepositions.
The Singular has seven cases; the Plural only six, the vocative having always the form of the nominative.
When is the vocativesingular not like the nominative?
The declension differs from that of «servus» only in the nominative and vocative singular.
The vocative case of these words is like the nominative, following the general rule (§74.
In form the vocative is regularly like the nominative.
The vocative singular of «deus» is like the nominative.
Observe that in these words the vocative and the genitive are alike.
That is, thevocative singular is like the nominative singular, and the vocative plural is like the nominative plural.
Point out five examples of the vocative in this dialogue.
Iesu, as well as Iesus, was used as a nominative, though really the genitive or vocative case.
Tyrwhitt prints On, 'to guard against the mistake which the editions generally have fallen into, of considering o, in this passage, as the sign of the vocative case.
In the Carmen Saliare we find Leucesie, a vocative of the later Lucelius from the root of lux.
Her final vocative was expressed in an angry gurgle.
His first vocative expressed all, but he was a politician and used to elaborating his mental processes for the benefit of befuddled intellects.
There are no regular declensions; in the vocative case, an e is added to the nominative, or words ending in tli or li, change the i into e.
The interjection of the vocative is with some hiua, and with others me.
In the plural the nominative is used to supply the lacking vocative form.
The vocative is not strictly speaking a case at all, for it stands outside the syntax of the sentence.
The letter O is a vocative particle, and should always be used before nouns or pronouns in the absolute case by direct address.
The Vocative is regularly like the Nominative, except in the singular of nouns in -us of the Second Declension.
In the Nominative and Vocative Singular of ager, the stem is further modified by the development of e before r.
He has changes of cases, the nominative and the vocativebeing interchanged in the following verse (I.
And the cause of the mutation is that the nominative accusative and vocative seem to have a certain relation to one another.
Agra or Agraw: a term of endearment; my love: vocative of Irish gradh, love.
Alanna; my child: vocative case of Irish leanbh [lannav], a child.
Avourneen, my love: the vocative case of Irish muirnin, a sweetheart, a loved person.
This speech is usually the prelude to something which elicits that exemplification of the vocative case which has been given in the first part of the Grammar.
That all nouns of thevocative case are of the second person.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vocative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: case; glib; nominative; prepositional; voluble
