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单词 genitive case
例句 genitive case
But that has nothing to do with the antecedent being in the genitive case; it’s just as much of a problem in Sophie and her mother think she’s fat. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
But Toni Morrison’s is not an adjective, like red or beautiful; it’s a noun phrase in genitive case. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
During the Force Majeure show, Izzard gets to grips with German sentence structure and declensions, earning knowing applause from the Berlin crowd for his perfect use of the fiendishly tricky genitive case at one stage. Grappling German grammar, Eddie Izzard proves humor can travel 2014-01-29T15:27:11Z
But the Attic writers often use it as a neuter word; and the genitive case, as they use it, is τοῦ ταρίχους. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z
The term "abortus," being in the genitive case, may be employed with either generic term. Contagious Abortion of Cows 2011-02-14T03:00:33.157Z
Some say that it is the genitive case of Meadh, the name of some ancient chieftain who was buried in the hill. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z
These names are for the most part a Greek letter prefixed to the genitive case of the Latin name of the constellation. A Text-Book of Astronomy 2011-01-05T03:00:57.347Z
Making the tribes a genitive case, by inserting of before them, is wholly uncalled for by the text. An Amicable Controversy with a Jewish Rabbi, on The Messiah's Coming
"But," it might be replied, "your alleged 'residual genitive' could be assumed everywhere, and we should thus find all the prohibitions of composition in constructions with a genitive case rendered utterly nugatory." The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy
How did these words, genitive case, come to India? Lectures on The Science of Language
From the time of Boniface V. to Leo IV., a.d. 617-855, the name of the pontiff, in the genitive case, was impressed on the obverse, and his title as pope on the reverse, e.g. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth"
In Cornwall the inscriptions are mostly very curt, just “A, son of B,” all in the genitive case, meaning “the monument of A, who was son of B.” The Christian Church in These Islands before the Coming of Augustine Three Lectures Delivered at St. Paul's in January 1894
Brūcan, to enjoy, usually takes the genitive case, not the accusative. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary
The measure of quantity is put after adjectives, in the accusative, the ablative, and the genitive case, as Anguis centum pedes longus: A snake a hundred feet long. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue
It may be the sign of the genitive case, so that Thursday = Thoris dies. A Handbook of the English Language
This genitive case is said to be expressed in the Hebrew language simply by the locality of the words in succession to each other; which must so far add to the conciseness of that language. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes
I shall have occasion to notice the peculiar use of the genitive case and of genitival adjectives in worship later on. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
A numeral, if a substantive noun is placed after it, must be in the genitive case; e.g., fitot�u no toga 'one sin.' Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language
The genitive case is known by the sign of, and answers to the question, whose, or whereof; as, Whose breeches? The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue
Reasons for this view occur in the following fact:— In the modern German languages the genitive case of feminine nouns ends otherwise than in -s. A Handbook of the English Language
Because there are genitive cases, different kinds of verbs, six tenses, etc. in the Latin or Greek, the same distinctions should exist in our grammars. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar.
The corner of a stone hurt me; stone is the genitive case. Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles
With passages of this kind the Sûtra only agrees if the genitive case is taken to denote the object. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
As a pig is known by his tail, so are declensions of substantives distinguished by the ending of the genitive case. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue
Now, if we take up the common grammars of the English language as it is, we find, that, whilst my and thy are dealt with as genitive cases, mine and thine are considered adjectives. A Handbook of the English Language
His rule of syntax is, "one substantive governs another, signifying a different thing, in the possessive or genitive case; as, my father's house." Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar.
Dr. Lowth, on the other part, supposes the possessive pronouns mine and thine to be genitive cases. A Grammar of the English Tongue
The words 'of this' denote that substrate of qualities which is presented to us by perception and the other means of right knowledge; the genitive case indicates it to be connected with origin, &c. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
Note.—Two substantives, when they come together, and do not signify the same thing, the former must be in the genitive case. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
Substantives in the genitive case; as needs. b. A Handbook of the English Language
With regard to this idiomatic use of the genitive case, vide "Grammar," page 96, paragraph b. Bagh O Bahar, or Tales of the Four Darweshes
"WHOSE, the possessive or genitive case of who or which; applied to persons or things." The Grammar of English Grammars
There exists therefore the highest classical authority for the use of "Nati" in the sense of "Sons" or "offspring" governing a genitive case. Bacon is Shake-Speare
The genitive case denotes dependence; the dative, transmission. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In the absolute construction of a genitive case, the term is formed by the single word, only so far as the expression is concerned. A Handbook of the English Language
My children's timeless deaths can scarce be said for untimely; nor should I choose to employ children's as a plural genitive case, which I think the s at the end cannot imply. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
Ash says, "Nouns of the plural number that end in s, will not very properly admit of the genitive case." The Grammar of English Grammars
Where in the original the Greek word "cave" is in the genitive case, not as it should be, dative. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
The genitive case with them is also obsolete; the dative supplies its place: they say the House 'to' a Man, instead of the House 'of' a Man. The Coming Race
When substantives, they are in regimen, and govern a genitive case—What is the meaning of the lady's holding up her train? A Handbook of the English Language
The true expression is, that the preposition of followed by an objective case is equivalent in many instances, to the genitive case of the classical languages. A Handbook of the English Language
On account of this one-sided equivalence, many grammarians erroneously reckon the latter to be a "genitive case" as well as the former. The Grammar of English Grammars
The notion that of forms a genitive case, led Priestley to suggest, that our language admits a "double genitive;" as, "This book of my friend's." The Grammar of English Grammars
Little explanatory circumstances," says Priestley, "are particularly awkward between the genitive case, and the word which usually follows it; as, 'She began to extol the farmer's, as she called him, excellent understanding.' The Grammar of English Grammars
No preposition, in the present English, governs a genitive case. A Handbook of the English Language
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