What's the difference between dative and him?

Dative


Definition:

  • (a.) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.
  • (a.) In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office.
  • (a.) Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer.
  • (a.) Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law.
  • (n.) The dative case. See Dative, a., 1.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Also, dative "verbs" yielded better performance when they were inserted in more complex, three-argument "sentences" than when they were inserted in two-argument "sentences."
  • (2) However, this decrease in performance was more pronounced for symbols representing pure transitive verbs--those that allow only one argument structure--than for symbols representing dative verbs--those that allow two different argument structures.
  • (3) Experiment 1 extended that work by demonstrating that dative verbs pattern with other complex transitive verbs (i.e., a fronted filler that is implausible as the direct object will not be interpreted as the direct object until the absence of a noun phrase after the verb forces the postulation of a direct object gap.
  • (4) N-Substituted dehydroalanines (indexed as AD compounds) are capto-dative olefins which react and scavenge free radicals, especially the superoxide anion (O2-) and hydroxyl radical (HO).
  • (5) A series of self-paced reading studies utilized an embedded anomaly technique to investigate long-distance dependencies with dative verbs.
  • (6) Subjects acted out 36 semantically reversible sentences that varied in thematic content (transitives, locatives, and datives) and in the order of thematic roles (canonical and noncanonical).
  • (7) The hypothetical reaction course is described to proceed through an Sn2 formation of an activated complex involving the initial production of a covalent structure with a dative bond (methyl from AdoMet attacks si-face of the 24,25-double bond of the sterol) and the secondary production of a series of high energy intermediates, the stabilization of which determines the final C-24 methylated product.
  • (8) Experiments 2 and 3 investigate the prediction that semantic analyses precede syntactic analyses in dative questions.
  • (9) Geometric model and ligand field considerations show besides the dative type sigma-bond formation, the possibility of both dative and retrodative type pi-bond formation between Co2+ and the AX ligands.
  • (10) We present a study wherein a severe Broca's aphasic patient was trained to learn symbols representing both pure transitive and dative predicates--predicates differing in argument structure--in a visually based artificial language (c-ViC).

Him


Definition:

  • (pron.) Them. See Hem.
  • (pron.) The objective case of he. See He.

Example Sentences:

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