9. The category of case. Ways of expressing case meanings in English.

Case expresses the relation of a word to another word in the word-group or sentence

Case is the following:

1. Possessive Genitive : Mary’s father – Mary has a father,
2. Subjective Genitive: The doctor’s arrival – The doctor has arrived(тот кто что то делает)
3. Objective Genitive :  The man’s release – The man was released(тот кто принимает действие)
4. Adverbial Genitive (time, measure, distance): 5 minutes’ distance
5. Genitive of destination: children’s books – books for children,
6. mixed Group:  yesterday’s paper

Idiomatic: to escaped by a hair’s breadth

Different scholars stick to a different number of cases.

1. There are two cases. The Common one and The Genitive;
2. There are no cases at all, the form `s is optional because the same relations may be expressed by the ‘of-phrase’: the doctor’s arrival – the arrival of the doctor;
3. There are three cases: the Nominative, the Genitive, the Objective due to the existence of objective pronouns me, him, whom.