On 9/18/07, Timothy Hunt <games@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > John [nominative] took Tracy's [genetive] ball [accusative] from the > closet [dative]. Then he [nominative] put it [accusative] back in it > [dative]. This is precisely the kind of thing I wish I had been taught in school. Stupid being just the wrong age and getting that useless "write like you speak and write what you feel" garbage. Apparently, where I grew up, they did it correctly until I was in school and, upon realizing that it generated kids without any writing skills, they switched back after I left. I never heard the word "infinitive" until my first year of foreign language in middle school. -- - |) () /\/ (for reference: I'm currently 28)