[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: JK Rowling pens a Harry Potter prequel / War of Roses/Holmes?Figg/Walpurga

[Lee Kaiwen]

Carol:
.... the English cases are subjective (corresponds to nominative),
objective (corresponds to accusative), and possessive (corresponds to
genitive).

Me:
A minor correction here: what modern grammarians like to call the 
"objective" case in English is really a merging of both the accusative 
and the dative of Old English.

Geoff:
I hope you'll forgive me for pointing out that surely "thee" - which
I agree is referring to an object - is however actually the accusative
case.

Carol:
Possibly you're thinking of Latin. English doesn't have an accusative
case....

Me:
But "thou" and "thee" are fixed-form remnants of Middle English, which 
did have nominative and accusative cases. Therefore Geoff is correct 
here: "thee" is (both) the accusative (and dative) form of the 
nominative "thou".

CJ