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USE OF CASES (continued) 



With the exception of prepositional phrases the following brief survey covers the 

 chief case usages of nouns and adjectives. 



NOMINATIVE 



1) In simple questions or statements: Ffle HOsaH KHwra? "Where is the new book?" 



3to - MOH pa60Ta. "That's my work." 



2) In both terms of equational sentences Xhmhh - BamHafl Hayua. "Chemistry is an 



(e.g. A = B); important science." 



AwnJIHTyflH - BUCOHM. "The amplitudes are 

 high." 



3) As subject of a verb: ^hshk paSoTasT "The physicist is work- 



B JiaSopaTOpww. ^^g in the laboratory." 



ACCUSATIVE 



1) As the object of most Russian verbs: Oh CJiymaeT jieKijHio. "He attends the lecture." 



HayKa OTKpHJia HOBHe "Science discovered new 

 HCTOqHHKM SHBprHH. sources of energy." 



2) In certain expressions denoting duration IlaiiHeHT OTflHxaJi "The patient rested 

 of time: BCK) sviuy . the whole winter." 



fl padOTaJI KpyrJIHH "r worked the whole 

 rOfl. year round. 



GENITIVE 



1) Usually after a negated verb: PaHbme yueHHe He uwTaJiH "Formerly scientists 



pyCCHHX ffiypnaJIOB . did not read Russian 



journals. " 



2) After hot "there is not/there are not" Hbt noJiesHoro "There is no useful 



peSyJIbTaTa. result." 



3) In situations where English would use CBOficTBa Toro pacTGHMH "the properties 

 a possessive or the preposition "of": of that plant " 



yeJiOBBK dojibffloro TaJianTa 



"a person of great talent" 



4) After words such as mhoto "many, much", MHoro yMHUX "many intelligent 

 ua.no "little, a few", CHOJibKO "how much", cTyfleHToi students" 



etc. : 



CHOJibKO OnHTOB? "How many experiments?" 



5) After verbs to denote "some" or "a portion 



of"; flailTe MHe BOflu! "Give me some water!' 



6) After certain verbs: Ona fioHJiacb sHsaMena . "She was afraid 



•of the exam." 



