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Example sentences for: vocative

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It is not strictly standard French before a common noun in the vocative case, but seems borrowed from the folksy language of camaraderie, the slang of street, barracks, and campus.
Whether Greta Garbo actually ever said, I want to be alone (she did), is of little consequence in the larger scheme of things; but the world consists of many parts, including many smaller--even infinitesimal--things, and we must not turn our noses up at the exact wording of Neil Armstrong's moon quotation: at least it was in English, and one need not try to explain that in Et tu, Brute , the last word is not the English word brute but the vocative case of Latin Brutus and then go off into the paroxysmal grammar of Latin to explain what a vocative is.