Grammar help, please!

[stickygirl]

Latin's a dead language,
As dead as dead can be;
It killed off all the Romans,
And now it's killing me!

I got through two years of school Latin. The highlight was Caecilius snuffing it when Pompeii erupted, promptly followed by epic disappointment that his annoying son Quintus and slave Clemens had magically survived and decided to travel on to Roman Britain, to be even more annoying there. When they survived various woes to reach Egypt, that was time to quit.

At least German only has three cases and barely uses one of them any more. (Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod...)

I feel your pain. we only did a day trip to Pompeiii but we had a giggle about Bella and the Twilight Zone

 

[AG31]

Inflection by case is the change of word's form based on grammatical case; it's more concisely called declension.

There's not much of it left in modern English, and it's most obvious with pronouns, as you have illustrated with "I" and "me". "Mine" is the third case here, called genitive or possessive,

Then, since this thread is about pronouns, you'd disagree with @XerXesXu?

English is not a language inflected for case:

 

[AG31]

@XerXesXu,

English...

"Me and Alfie went down the pub." vs "Alfred and I visited the local ale house."

Who's speaking can play a bigger part than grammar.

Certainly if one's character in a story is uneducated, then they should speak in an uneducated way.

 

[TheLobster]

Then, since this thread is about pronouns, you'd disagree with @XerXesXu?

Nah, not really. For all intents and purposes, English pronouns are just a closed set of words; even if we say they do inflect, there is no morphological rule that let's you make "me" out of "I", so this fact doesn't carry much meaning.

 

[stickygirl]

I just read a piece about the death of the semi-colon. I confess my language skills are poor and while the semi is a way of linking two separate ideas into one sentence, I can't feel it. Apparently Virginia Woolf used hundreds of them; perhaps we could launch a rescue program to save them from extinction?
Who doesn't like a semi?

 

[AG31]

I just read a piece about the death of the semi-colon. I confess my language skills are poor and while the semi is a way of linking two separate ideas into one sentence, I can't feel it. Apparently Virginia Woolf used hundreds of them; perhaps we could launch a rescue program to save them from extinction?
Who doesn't like a semi?

I love semi-colons. For when you know that's two separate sentences, but the second is just so closely linked to the first. The use or non-use of semi-colons can do a lot to create a narrative tone.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Be aware, lots of : colons, ; semicolons, and --- long dashes is a flag for most AI detectors.

I love semi-colons. For when you know that's two separate sentences, but the second is just so closely linked to the first. The use or non-use of semi-colons can do a lot to create a narrative tone.

 

[XerXesXu]

I just read a piece about the death of the semi-colon. I confess my language skills are poor and while the semi is a way of linking two separate ideas into one sentence, I can't feel it. Apparently Virginia Woolf used hundreds of them; perhaps we could launch a rescue program to save them from extinction?
Who doesn't like a semi?

These are stylistic rules. Jane Austen used comma splices, Virginia Woolf used semi-colons. Fashions and usage change. Many in-house style guides, particularly those of newspapers, require full-stops. Any of these work, and, if you're not writing in-house, there are few situations in which you need prefer one usage over another. 'Be consistent', is a useful rule of thumb.

 

[iwatchus]

Be aware, lots of : colons, ; semicolons, and --- long dashes is a flag for most AI detectors.

I use too many em-dashes and semi's then is healthy and I have never been flagged here.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I don't say you will, it's just something AI does a lot of. And the automated AI, AI checkers, look for it. They flagged the opening sentence, one line, of A Tale of Two Cities, because of that.

I use too many em-dashes and semi's then is healthy and I have never been flagged here.

 

[AG31]

I've started a complimentary thread to track those times when using proper grammar with I/me (and they/them) is just so stilted that you can't stand to do it. What are some examples? What do y0u do instead?