Talk:Quirky subject
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[edit] Clarification request
- Swedish-language verbs forced subjects to agree in person around the 15th century, the advent of modern Swedish. Agreement in number remained in written Swedish as late as the 20th century, though, even though all subject-verb agreement had disappeared in speech by the 17th century.
I'm a little confused about what this means. Does "agreement in number" mean, for example, that the word for "He" would be different in "He ate an orange" and "He ate some oranges"? What about "agreement in person"? Different between "He likes me" and "He likes her"? Even though English makes no distinction I feel this section would benefit greatly from some English-language examples to illustrate how it would work if it did. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.152.169.18 (talk) 22:25, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
