vocative
Example Sentences
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I get pedantic about the placement of the vocative comma in “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen.”
From The New Yorker • Dec. 18, 2018
Notice the abrupt change from third person "he" to vocative "thou" in the middle of verse four, the point at which the speaker is most in need of comfort.
From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2011
Since Kunstler's role is usually to attack well-entrenched precedent he can be counted on for an original pro vocative argument.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pomegranate, Aryan words for, 408. πόνηρε, vocative, 232.
From Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV Essays chiefly on the Science of Language by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
It is a different word altogether, and is only the subjunctive of am, in the way puss is the vocative of cat.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
