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Genitive
Genitive is a case. Case is the form of a word that helps someone to know the function of the word in a sentence. Case helps the reader to know what the word is doing in a sentence.
The genitive case can identify to whom or to what something belongs.
Sometimes the genitive is translated by adding the word of or from.
What types of words use case?
- Noun- Case on a noun helps the reader to know how someone or something relates to the action of the verb.
- Article- Case on an article helps the reader know which word the article is attached to.
- Adjective- Case on an adjective can help the reader to know which noun the adjective is describing. If the adjective is not used to describe something and it acts like a noun, case helps the reader to know how the word relates to the action of the verb.
- Participle- Case on a participle is used in the same way as it is with the noun or adjective.
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How else can the genitive case be used in a sentence?
- It can describe another noun.
- It can name a person’s family.
- It can help the reader to understand the whole of something which is the part.
- It can name what something is made of.
- It can tell the reader that something is full of something else or contains something else.
- It can mean that this word and another noun are the same thing. It can be translated by adding the words that is, which is, or who is.
- It can mean that this word is the origin or source of another noun.
- It can be used as a subject of a sentence. It is only used in this way when another noun implies an action of some sort.
- It can be used as the object of an action. That is, it can receive the action. It is only used in this way when another noun implies an action of some sort.
- It can describe when something happens.
- It can describe where something happens.It can describe something that is separated from something else. It can be translated by adding the words from or away from.
- It can compare two things or people in some way.
- It can indicate the price of something.
See: Adjective; Noun; Verb; Participle