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Genitive
The genitive case refers to someone, or something, that possesses
something, for example:
This theatre’s acoustics are superb.
Vocative
The vocative case refers to the words by which you address persons
or things, for example:
Hurry, girls, the play is about to start.
24.1 Activities: case
1. Students identify the case of each of the nouns or pronouns in the
following sentences.
a. Dad sings in the shower.
b. Rory sat on a green mat.
c. Driver, please stop at the entrance.
d. Lucy’s sister has asthma.
e. Give the principal this note, Cassie.
2. Students write two sentences for each of the following words, using
a different case for each, for example:
elephant: My uncle has an elephant’s tusk. (genitive)
Elephants are reputed to have long memories.
(nominative)
a. explosion
b. Queen Victoria
c. algebra
d. speaker
e. love
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one word – as in Glass is breakable/The glass is breakable. This
use of the word ‘phrase’ is not only totally confusing, as the words
marked already have defining terminology, but also renders not
only the function but the category and the word ‘phrase’ itself as
quite meaningless.
In the traditional sense, being an appendage, an adjectival or
an adverbial phrase can be removed from a sentence, leaving the
remainder grammatically whole. Thus it possesses a clear and
valuable function.
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Adjectival phrases
This is a group of words forming a unit and doing the work of an
adjective. Therefore, it tells more about a noun or pronoun.
For example:
Today I saw a man with a glass eye.
adjectival phrase qualifying
the noun ‘man’
Somebody wearing army boots robbed the bank.
adjectival phrase qualifying
the pronoun ‘somebody’
You can remove the phrase and the remainder is still a complete
sentence.
A man wearing army boots robbed the bank.
Adverbial phrases
As the name suggests these phrases give more information about
the action of the verb. They modify verbs in just the same way
that single adverbs do. And, just like adverbs, they give answers
to the questions: When? – time; Where? – place; How? – manner;
Why? – reason etc.