Case

Multiple-choice exercise

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Choose the best answer for each question

  1. The concept of away from or out of is managed in some languages by the use of which case?
    1.   locative
    2.   ablative
    3.   vocative
    4.   nominative
  2. The accusative is also known as ...
    1.   the prepositional
    2.   the object case
    3.   the possessive
    4.   the subject case
  3. In The bank gave a loan to the company, which of the following is true?
    1.   the bank is nominative, the company is dative and the loan is accusative
    2.   the bank is nominative, the company is accusative and the loan is dative
    3.   the bank is accusative, the company is dative and the loan is accusative
    4.   the bank is nominative, the company is locative and the loan is accusative
  4. The concept of inside is managed in some languages by the use of which case?
    1.   nominative
    2.   ablative
    3.   locative
    4.   vocative
  5. In general, Romance languages ...
    1.   do not change the noun ending to signify case
    2.   change nouns and adjective endings to signify case
    3.   do not have any case structures
    4.   have similar case structures to German
  6. The company's statement is an example of the genitive acting as ...
    1.   origin
    2.   possessive
    3.   subjective
    4.   descriptive
  7. the book's price is more acceptable than the furniture's cost because ...
    1.   the book refers to a human undertaking
    2.   the book is equally inanimate
    3.   the book is alive
    4.   the furniture is inanimate
  8. The pen of my aunt is not usually acceptable in English because ...
    1.   aunt is a proper noun
    2.   aunt is a noun for a person
    3.   aunt can never be used with the of-structure
    4.   aunt is a known person to both speaker and hearer