新编英语语法教程第五版5 genitive noun.pptVIP

* * * A: If he says such things, he is not a friend of my father. c) The noun head: picture, portrait, printing, photograph, bust, statue The double genitive the picture that one keeps The of phrase the picture of one’s own This is a portrait of Mr. Black’s This is a portrait of Mr. Black d) The noun head: criticism, opinion, judgment, a criticism of William’s = a criticism offered by William a criticism of William = a criticism about William Correct the errors of the genitives if any: 1. Where’s the dictionary of Cathy’s? 2. I don’t know whether this is a lady or a gentleman’s wrist-watch. 3.Her love of a child took the fancy of all of us. 4. The poem of Shelly’s he recited a hundred times was Ode to the West Wind. 5. Andrew and Horatia’s eyes met. 1. that dictionary of Cathy’s 2. a lady’s or (a) gentleman’s wristwatch 3. T 4. T 5. T * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Lecture 5 Genitive Noun Teaching Contents 5.1 Formation, meanings and uses of genitive nouns 5.2 Independent genitive and double genitive Two Case systems: the unmarked common case and the marked genitive case: boy, boy’s The genitive case: the inflected genitive (the –s genitive)(屈折所属格） and the periphrastic genitive (the of-genitive)（迂回所属格） e.g. the children’s toys, the toys of children 5.1 Formation, meanings and uses of genitive nouns 1) Rules of formation of the –s genitive a) adding ’s to singular nouns and to those plural nouns that don’t end in –s , e.g. my mother’s arrival, women’s clothes b) adding an apostrophe to plural nouns ending in –s, e.g. the teachers’ college, the workers’ achievements c) adding ’s to the compound nouns or to the end of a postmodified noun phrase, e.g. my brother-in-law’s friend, a cat and dog’s life, [the teacher of music]’s room d) In coordinate nouns, the genitive ending is added to each of the coordinate elements when denoting respective possession, and only to the last coordinate element when denoting common posse