Investigating the Ability of Iraqi University Learners of English to Recognize the Semantics of the English ’s Genitive | ||
| Basic Education College Magazine For Educational and Humanities Sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 15, April 2018, Pages 476-498 | ||
| Author | ||
| Sanaa Sabeeh Othman | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The marked genitive case as distinguished from the unmarked common one is one of the forms accompanied with the noun phrase in English to express grammatical/semantic relationships within sentences in texts. In many instances in complex noun phrases, there is a similarity of function and meaning between ’s-genitive or a genitive construction and its equivalent with ‘of phrase’ or ‘of-construction’. In many cases, the two forms are equivalent in meaning and are both perfectly acceptable, in other cases either the ’s-genitive or the of-construction is the only appropriate choice regarding the factors affecting the best choice | ||
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| Investigating the Ability of Iraqi University Learners of English to Recognize the Semantics of the English | ||
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