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Duong Nguyen Hong Duong Nguyen Hong MinhMinh

English 3B.04English 3B.04

CONTENT:

DEFINITION

SPELLING AND PRONUNCIATION

CLASSIFICATION

DEFINITION

DEFINITIONGENITIVE CASE in English conveys the ideas of possession, source, attribution, origin, measurement, and description.Its grammatical function is indicated – by inflection: E.g. Fred’s suitcase,

their father, our sisters’ hats.– by the periphrastic genitive with “of”:

E.g. the surface of the water, the floor of the house.

DEFINITIONIn grammar, the genitive case or possessive case (also called the second case) is the case that marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun. The genitive case typically has other uses as well, which can vary from language to language: it can typically indicate various relationships other than possession; certain verbs may take arguments in the genitive case; and it may have adverbial uses.

SPELLING & PRONUNCIATION

SPELLING

SINGULAR NOUN + ‘S E.g. my father’s car

PLURAL NOUN + ‘E.g. my parents’ house

IRREGULAR PLURAL + ‘SE.g. the children’s room, men’s clothes.

PRONUNCIATION

The ending ‘s is pronounced just like a plural ending E.g. giraffe’s /d3i’ra:fs/

dog’s /dogz/ James’s /’d3eimziz/

CLASSIFICATION

CLASSIFICATION1. Subjective and objective genitive ("God's

creation") 2. Genitive of purpose ("He has written many

children's books.")3. Survivals of "an old genitive of

source" ("hen's eggs") 4. Partitive and appositive genitives

(don't exist in English, but we express them with an "of" phrase, as in "some of us," "the state of Ohio," "the title of president")

CLASSIFICATION5. Classifying or descriptive genitive ("the

room's furnishings") 6. Possessive genitive ("Irene's coat") 7. Genitive of measures and other

adverbial genitives ("At one time the genitive form of certain words could be used as an adverb. Most of our adverbs that end in an 's' (or 'z') sound, such as "nowadays," "since," "sometimes," "upwards," are survivals from this period.)

GENITIVE OF DESCRIPTION

We use the structure to classify things.E.g. a women’s college college for women

men’s clothes clothes for men.

POSSESSIVE GENITIVE To talk about possessions, relationships, and physical characteristics.E.g. Alice’s friend

Cat’s ear My father’s house.

To talk about things that people produce.E.g. John’s story the story produced by John.

GENITIVE OF MEASUREThe ‘s structure (or the plural with ‘s) is

often used to say how long things last.E.g. a day’s journey the journey lasting a day.

We can also use the ‘s structure to talk about particular moments and events.E.g. yesterday’s news the news broadcasted yesterday.