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Originally Posted by Rizla
Thanks for the point about cases. Still, my point holds, I think. English is, as European languages go, not a complicated language. No gender and very little conjugation, and sentence order for the most part is simple and rigid. Mind you, the commas can be fiddly.
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English does of course have cases, but (with one notable exception), it expresses case by word order, not inflection. Eg:
The dog bit the man
Word order tells us the "dog" is in the nominative case, and is the subject of the sentence, and "the man" is in the accusative case and is the object.
The exception to "no inflections" is the genitive case, which English (primarily) indicates by adding an "apostrophe s" to indicate possession:
The man's dog