{"id":28450,"date":"2017-02-25T03:01:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T17:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=28450"},"modified":"2017-02-25T07:16:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T21:16:57","slug":"english-noun-or-pronoun-case-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/english-noun-or-pronoun-case-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"English Noun or Pronoun Case Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/what_case_is_that.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"English Noun or Pronoun Case Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/what_case_is_that.jpg\" title=\"English Noun or Pronoun Case Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">English Noun or Pronoun Case Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Seems like English Grammar learning may be <a target=_blank title='NSW HSC shake up' href='http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/nsw\/nsw-hsc-back-to-the-future-in-first-major-overhaul-of-the-syllabus-in-20-years-20170220-gugoum.html'>coming back into fashion<\/a> here in New South Wales, in Australia.  To celebrate, we&#8217;ve written an English sentence game where you classify a noun or pronoun within that sentence regarding <i>case<\/i> choices &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nominative<\/li>\n<li>Accusative<\/li>\n<li>Genitive<\/li>\n<li>Dative<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This game could well suit <a target=_blank title='ESL information from Wikipedia ... thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_as_a_second_or_foreign_language'>ESL<\/a> students as well, who may be familiar with these Noun or Pronoun Cases with their own native language.<\/p>\n<p>We structure the web application written in HTML and Javascript as a randomly selected sentence with the <b>noun<\/b> or <b>pronoun<\/b> highlighted <b>bold<\/b> and the sentence&#8217;s <i>verb<\/i> is <i>itallicized<\/i>, because we present some (optional) hints, in the game, which we&#8217;ll also show below &#8230; for the sentence &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\nSarah <i>gave<\/i> <b>me<\/b> a chocolate.<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<div id=\"hints\" style=\"background-color:yellow;\">\n<p>Accusative: <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Accusative link, thanks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grammar-monster.com\/glossary\/accusative_case.htm\">The accusative case&#8217;s main function is to show the direct object of a verb.<\/a>  To find direct object &#8230; gave what (or whom)?<br \/>Nominative: <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Nominative link, thanks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywritingtips.com\/what-is-dative-case\/\">A noun or pronoun is in the Nominative Case when it is the subject of a sentence, or when it completes a being verb.<\/a>  To find subject &#8230; who or what gave?<br \/>Genitive: <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Genitive link, thanks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywritingtips.com\/what-is-dative-case\/\">A noun or pronoun is in the Genitive Case when it shows possession.<\/a><br \/>Dative: <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dative link, thanks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywritingtips.com\/what-is-dative-case\/\">A noun or pronoun is in the Dative Case when it is used as an indirect object.<\/a>   If a sentence contains two objects, it will have a direct object and an indirect object. To find the direct object &#8230; gave what (or whom)?  To find the indirect object &#8230; gave to whom\/to what\/for whom\/for what\/on what?<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p>You can try this out for yourself today via this <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/what_case_is_that.html\" title=\"Click picture\">live run<\/a> link whose underlying HTML and Javascript code you could call <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/what_case_is_that.html_GETME\" title=\"what_case_is_that.html\">what_case_is_that.html<\/a> for your perusal.<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d28450' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d28450\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/esl\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d28450' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like English Grammar learning may be coming back into fashion here in New South Wales, in Australia. 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