Презентация на тему: "Definition of Case"

Definition of Case. Number of Case.

Rogoza N., 412

• Case is a morphological category which has a distinct syntactic significance, as it denotes relations of nouns towards other words in the word-group or sentence.

J.C. Nesfield mentions 5 cases:

nominative

genitive

vocative

accusative

dative

Rain falls.

• When a noun is used as subject, it is said to be in the nominative case

Are you coming, my friend ?

• When a noun is used for the sake of address, it is said to be in the vocative case

Mary took the money.

• When a noun is a direct object, it is said to be in the accusative case

I gave the boy a penny.

• When a noun is an indirect object, it is said to be in the dative case

According to B.S. Khaimovich and B.L. Rogovskaya

• Every grammatical category should comprise a limited number of members.
• Analytical forms are generally singled out as opposed to synthetic forms.

the house of your neighbour

=

your neighbour’s house

• There is much subjectivity in the choice of prepositions

According to A.I. Smirnitsky

• Nouns and personal pronouns belong to different parts of speech
• The group of personal pronouns is rather small.
• Nouns lack special inflections for the nominative and the objective

Nouns in the common case can perform any syntactic function in the sentence

• Suddenly the weather changed- subject
• He touched my hand – object
• He was a shy man - predicative