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

She, Frau Kurz, is a good sort of woman, and he--well, he is in the vocative, like all shop-keepers.

From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz

Archbishop Whately once declared that there was only one noun in English which had a real vocative case.

From Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured by Weir, Harrison