Genitive

Ambiguity of genitive

Ambiguity of genitive
  1. What are examples of genitive?
  2. What are examples of genitive construction?
  3. How is the genitive case translated?

What are examples of genitive?

In English grammar, a noun or name with 's added to it, for example 'dog's' or 'Anne's', is sometimes called the genitive form.

What are examples of genitive construction?

In grammar, a genitive construction or genitival construction is a type of grammatical construction used to express a relation between two nouns such as the possession of one by another (e.g. "John's jacket"), or some other type of connection (e.g. "John's father" or "the father of John").

How is the genitive case translated?

The genitive case is most familiar to English speakers as the case that expresses possession: "my hat" or "Harry's house." In Latin it is used to indicate any number of relationships that are most frequently and easily translated into English by the preposition "of": "love of god", "the driver of the bus," the "state ...

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