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

I don’t care; I take a different view of the vocative.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

This is undoubtedly the vocative case of the Lat.

From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown