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
They are thus ticketed—nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, and ablative.
From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by John Leech
Whence the original noun substantive by change of its termination suggests a secondary idea either corresponding with the genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, or ablative cases, besides the secondary ideas of number and gender above mentioned.
From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Erasmus Darwin
