4. NOUN MODIFIERS
4.1. NOUNS IN THE GENITIVE CASE AS NOUN MODIFIERS
PART I. Test Your Knowledge
Answer the questions.
1. What is a noun phrase?
2. What is a modifier?
3. What are the two types of noun modifiers?
4. What are the ways of expressing noun pre-modifiers?
5. What does the grammatical term “case” mean? What is the Russian for “case”?
6. How many cases are there in the English language?
7. What English nouns can be used in the genitive case?
8. How is the genitive of a compound noun built?
9. What is the dependent genitive?
10. What are the kinds of genitive depending on the relations between the noun in the common case and its modifier in the genitive case?
11. What are the common meanings of the specifying genitive?
12. How can the combination [N’s + N] (= a noun in the genitive case + a noun in the common case) be paraphrased in case of the specifying genitive?
13. Which noun does the article refer to in case of the specifying genitive?
14. How can the combination [N’s + N] be paraphrased in case of the descriptive (classifying) genitive?
15. Which noun does the article refer to in case of the descriptive (classifying) genitive?
16. What set expressions with the genitive case do you know?
17. What is the group genitive?
18. What is the independent (absolute) genitive?
19. What is the double genitive?
20. How can the combination [N’s + N] be paraphrased in case of the double genitive?