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5. Describe the category of case in terms of oppositions.
6. List the meanings of the genitive. Comment on the peculiarities of the
genitive case in English.
7. Give comments on the synonymic “encounter” of the ‘s-genitive and the of-
phrase.
8. Comment on the use of the group-genitive and double genitive in Modern
English.
9. Comment on the problem of gender. Does the category of gender exist in
Modern English? What ways of expressing gender distinctions exist in
English?
10. What differentiates the category of gender in English from that in Russian?
11. Comment on the linguistic status of the article.
Practice Assignment
I. State the meaning of the s-morpheme in each particular case:
Glass – glasses, look – looks, thrill – thrills, custom – customs, sand – sands, arm –
arms, like – likes, arm – arms, water – waters, spade – spades.
II. Give the plural form of the nouns in brackets. Group regular plurals into three
groups according to the way the plural-building morpheme is pronounced: 1) [s],
2) [z], 3) [ız].
1. There was a high dado of white wood and a green paper on which were
(etching) by Whistler in neat black (frame). The green (curtain) with their peacock
design, hung in straight (line), and the green carpet, in the pattern of which pale
(rabbit) frolicked among leafy (tree), suggested the influence of William Morris.
There was blue delft on the chimneypiece. At that time there must have been five
hundred (dining-room) in London decorated in exactly the same manner. (W. S.
Maugham)
2. I spent long (hour) in the Louvre, the most friendly of all galleries and the
most convenient for meditation; or idled on the (quay), fingering second-hand
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