a. ’s-ejefald. Bruges om personer: Peter’s car. Laves med ’s. Hvis ordet ender på s, sættes apostroffen på s:, Charles’ house.
b. Of-ejefald: Ved (døde) ting og begreber: The leaves of the tree (Træets blade). The productivity of the British economy (Den britiske økonomis produktivitet)
c. Ofte kan begge ejefald bruges: The parks of London/London’s parks. Det kan især gælde dyr, steder m.v. med mulighed for en vis "personlighed", at ’s bruges. Valg af ejefald kan være udtryk for fokus: Personligt/upersonligt (’s/of-ejefald)
d. ’s bruges ved betegnelser for tid: One night’s work, two nights’ work, one hour’s break, two weeks’ holiday.
Ret følgende sætninger:
I looked at the ant. It’s efforts to transport the grain of sugar
were rewarded. It’s skinny legs were working like drumsticks. My
brothers car never got beyond the border. He was too scared. He also thought of it’s
shortcomings.
Kommenter B’s brug af ejefald. Kan ejefaldene konstrueres anderledes?:
"I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to know."—On what happened in negotiations (forhandlinger) between the Justice Department (Justitsministeriet) and Elián González's Miami relatives, as quoted by the Associated Press, April 26 (Om lille cubansk dreng, Elián, der skulle udleveres til faren på Cuba, men hvor slægtningene i Miami modsatte sig det)
"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law."—Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000 (legislature: lovgivende forsamling. Executive branch: Den udøvende magt, dvs regering og administration)
SUPPLERENDE ØVELSER:Sæt streg under genitivsformer
og possessive pronominer:
"This
is an area where parents don't bat an eye over getting their kids BMWs to drive
to school," said Herndon parent Andrea Baker. "They're so busy
keeping up with the Joneses it's incredible." Baker's twins, seniors at
Herndon High, share a 1985 Volkswagen Quantum, but she concedes she sometimes
feels pressure to keep up with her neighbors. She recalled a Sweet 16 party to
which her daughter Shannon was invited: the engraved invitation stipulated that
the gentlemen should wear coats and ties and the ladies, dresses. The soiree
was held at the family's oceanfront vacation home in Virginia Beach. "I
thought it was a bit over-the-top," Baker said. "Kids nowadays think
that kind of thing is nothing”.Her twins' party, by contrast, was a barbecue
for 60 in the back yard. Beth Whiteman felt the sting of affluence firsthand at
Oakton High School, from which she graduated in 1999. In Whiteman's senior
yearbook, her 1988 Chevy Nova—a gift from her grandmother when she turned
16—was tagged with the ultimate insult: "Worst car." At Oakton, as at
many other high schools, Abercrombie & Fitch is the clothier of choice. The
school's rarefied air has even inspired a special phrase among some of its
students: "Acting Too Oakton" refers to someone who is pretentious or
materialistic. And it's not just the Oaktons, McLeans and Langleys; Fairfax
County's growing affluence has spilled over to schools historically known as
more middle class.
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