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(d) When the question is asked with “who” or “what,” the subject alone is used in the answer, and if the subject be a personal pronoun the emphatic form will be used, as—

Cia rinne é sin? Mise.   Who did that? I did.



CHAPTER VI.


The Preposition.

602. As a general rule the simple prepositions govern a dative case, and precede the words which they govern: as,

Ṫáinig sé ó Ċorcaiġ. He came from Cork.
Ṫug sé an t‑uḃall do’n ṁnaoi.
He gave the apple to the woman.

Exceptions. (1) The preposition idir,between,” governs the accusative case: as, idir Corcaiġ agus Luimneaċ, between Cork and Limerick.

(2) Go dtí,[1] meaning “to” (motion), is followed by the nominative case.

Ċuaiḋ sé go dtí an teaċ.   He went to the house.

  1. Go dtí is really a corrupted form of the old subjunctive mood of the verb tigim, I come; so that the noun after go dtí was formerly nominative case to the verb.