Lesson 5 | The Fourth Pass: Label, Part 2

Review

You heard a lot of details in this lesson! But remember that the aim is familiarity and not memorization. If you did not yet print out The Genitive Relationships cheat sheet, do so now.

What we learned this lesson

We learned 19 relationships of genitive phrases to anchor phrases:
  1. Possessive: The noun in the anchor phrase is a possession of the genitive.
  2. Relationship: The noun in the anchor phrase describes the relationship and the genitive indicates the person to whom he/she is related.
  3. Partitive: The noun in the anchor phrase is part of the whole described in the genitive.
  4. Epexegetical: The noun in the anchor phrase refers to the same thing as the genitive.
  5. Subjective: The genitive functions as the subject of the verbal idea implied in the noun of the anchor phrase.
  6. Objective: The genitive functions as the object of the verbal idea implied in the noun of the anchor phrase.
  7. Plenary: The genitive functions both as the subject and the object of the verbal idea implied in the noun of the anchor phrase.
  8. Attributive: The genitive specifies an attribute or quality of the noun in the anchor phrase.
  9. Attributed: The noun in the anchor phrase specifies an attribute or quality of the genitive.
  10. Producer: The noun in the anchor phrase is produced by the genitive.
  11. Product: The noun in the anchor phrase produces the genitive.
  12. Material: The genitive specifies the material out of which the noun in the anchor phrase is made.
  13. Contents: The genitive specifies the contents of the noun in the anchor phrase.
  14. Subordination: The noun of the anchor phrase has dominion over the genitive.
  15. Source: The genitive specifies the origin of the noun in the anchor phrase.
  16. Destination: The genitive specifies the end point to which the noun of the anchor phrase arrives.
  17. Separation: The genitive is that from which a verb or a noun in the anchor phrase is separated.
  18. Reference: The genitive indicates to what the anchor phrase is in connection.
  19. Descriptive: The noun in the anchor phrase is characterized by the genitive.
Determining how a genitive phrase relates sheds much light!

Phrasing