THE ACCUSATIVE CASE

1.  DIRECT OBJECT

                (RECEIVES THE ACTION OF THE VERB/ANSWERS THE QUESTION "__VERB__ WHAT?")

                        The girls saw the man.  (Puellae viderunt virum.)

2.  ACCUSATIVE DURATION OF TIME

                (SHOWS FOR HOW LONG SOMETHING LASTED)

                        She cried for three days.  (Lacrimabat tres dies.)

3.  ACCUSATIVE EXTENT OF SPACE

                (SHOWS DISTANCE/FOR HOW FAR SOMETHING WENT)

                        We walked for five miles.  (Ambulavimus quinque milia passuum.)

4.  AS THE OBJECT OF PREPOSITIONS

                (MOST PREPOSITIONS IN LATIN---EXCEPT THE "BIG 8" {SEE ABLATIVE}---TAKE THEIR OBJECT IN THE ACCUSATIVE)

                        We walked through the forest.  (Ambulavimus per silvam.)

5. SUBJECT OF AN INDIRECT STATEMENT

                (THE SUBJECT OF AN INDIRECT STATEMENT APPEARS IN THE ACCUSATIVE AND NOT IN THE NOMINATIVE.)

                        I think that you are kind.   (Puto te esse benignum.)

6. SUBJECT OF AN INFINITIVE

                        I want the slaves to work hard.  (Volo servos laborare strenue.)