The category of case

I. Identify the meaning of the Genitive Case form and motivate your answer:

1. An old woman we met in the shop then kindly took us along with her for a quarter of a mile, to a lady friend of hers, who occasionally let rooms to gentlemen. This old woman walk­ed very slowly, and we were twenty minutes getting to her lady friend's. Her lady friend's rooms were let. 2. He was conscious also of the shallowness and vanity of his mother's nature, and in that saw infinite peril for Sibyl and Sibyl's happiness. 3. It's the Judge's song out of "Pinafore". 4. But there was a man ready to step into Abraham's shoes, and Abra­ham was forgotten. 5. Blanche Stroeve stopped suddenly, and as hard as she could slapped her husband's face. 6. His heart began to beat quickly, for he guessed at once that it was one of Strickland's pictures. 7. And all the evening long the timid townsmen's doors have had to be quick opened to let in rough groups of soldiers . . . 8. In another moment, the grocer's boy passed on the opposite side of the street. 9. A kind-hearted bargeman, however, who happened to be in the tap-room, thought we might try the grocer's next door to the Stag, and we went back. 9. They travelled in blissful silence holding each other's hands.

II. Find out if the morpheme -’s is a Genitive Case morpheme of whether it is a word-forming suffix expressing qualitative-evaluative meaning:

1. But I do not propose to deal with Charles Strickland's work except in so far as it touches upon his character. 2. I never knew of this woman's existence till half an hour ago. 3. It's men such as you that hamper the world's progress. 4. I could bear to hear of my soldier lover's death, but not of his cow­ardice. 5. Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day. 6. His position required a serpent's matter, a lion's courage, a dove's gentleness; he was not conscious of possessing such proverbial qualities. 7. Under such circum­stances a man's services had to be very distinguished indeed to be heard of by his family and the friends of his youth. 8. For the next four days he lived a simple and blameless life on thin captain's biscuits (I mean that the biscuits were thin, not the captain) and soda-water. 9. Did you ever know letters address­ed in a woman's hand come for him? 10. It was on occasion such as a morning in Cowbridge Police Court that he was wont to refer to his profession as a dog's life. 11. After a six week's period of draught he would be stricken down with rheumatic fever. 21. Harris said that we should be wanting to start in less than twelve hour's time, and thought that he and George had better do the rest. 13. When battles are going on in open ground it frequently occurs that the opposing lines, confront­ing one another within a stone's throw for hours, hug the earth as closely as if they loved it. 14. "I'll have half-a-crown's worth of brandy, neat, if you please, miss," he responded. 15. Be­cause to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. 16. And now, lo! down upon the road that winds along the riv­er's bank from Staines there 'come toward us, laughing and talking together in deep gutteral bass a half-score of stalwart halberd-men.... 17. They're a mother's only safeguard. 18. It is the world's original sin. 19. She paused, waiting with expectancy the benediction of her mother's kiss, but Mrs. Morse was coldly silent. 20. For reply her mother's arm went around her, and a hand was softly caressing her hair. 21. Mrs. Morse did not require a mother's intuition to read the adver­tisement in Ruth's face when she returned home.

III. Analyze the use of the Independent Genitive Case form:

1. Surely to assault truth is a more serious misdemeanor than to insult a pigmy personality such as the judge's. 2. A girl's face was pressed against the large window pane. It was Nelha's. 3. Her eyes threw back the rays of the lantern, shining like cat's at midnight. 4. "Ah! I thought you were a Celt; so it's not your farm?" — "My aunt's, sir." — "And your uncle's?" 5. The words were Miss Spencer's. 6. He took a can­dle, lighted it, and went to his bedroom, which was next to Halliday's. 7. This speech of his nephew's, however, had the effect of immediately restoring his belief in the latter's entire sanity. 8. Ashurst's hair was smooth, pale, wary; Carton's was a kind of dark unfathomed mop. 9. Ruth's hand sought Martin's beseechingly under the table, but his blood was up. 10."Does it mean revolvers?" the millionaire laughed. — "It may come to that." — "Here you are, my friend," — said Racksole and he pulled one out of his hip pocket. — "And yours?" — "I," said the Prince, "I have your daughter's." 11. Suddenly from overhead he heard little burring boy's voices, little thumps of boots thrown down, and another voice, crisp and soft — the girl's, putting them to bed, no doubt; and nine clear words: "No Rick, you can't have the cat in bed." 12. The words came from behind the door, and the voice was the commissionaire’s. 13. His arm was round her waist, and her head was resting on his shoulder as she used to rest it on George's.