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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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Which is rarely taught to children, and nor does it need to be. This is a point I'm making about English. For the most part, it is simple and obvious. I wonder if the same can be said for German, which as I understand, uses a more complex case system, as well as having three genders!