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

That all nouns of the vocative case are of the second person.

From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by Leech, John

Now, Ma!" broke in Sophia, accompanying this vocative with a tart gesture of remonstrance, "Claire doesn't know a bit better than you or I do whether he was high-toned or not.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar