THE FUNCTION OF CASES IN OLD ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGES
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This article deals with grammatical functions of cases in Old English language and their comparative analysis with Russian grammar cases were done by justifying them with examples. The peculiarities of using five grammar cases in English sentences such as, Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative and Instrumental along with Russian language cases which is similar to those five cases and plus the last prepositional case.
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