1 republic of uzbekistan ministry of higher and secondary specialised education

countable nouns have the 
opposition of singularity and plurality forms
. But 
uncountable 
nouns 
expressing material,
 
abstract and quantitative ideas such as 
sugar, gold, milk, feeling, crowd, butter,
 
humanity in English , non, 
shakar , suv, his-tuyg’u, muhabbat, tilla, kumush,
 
yog’,
olomon, 

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insoniyat in Uzbek
 
don’t have
 opposition of singularity and plurality
. 
Nouns like 
trousers, clothes, sweets
with the form of plurality 
don’t have the 
opposition of singularity and plurality either.
Some other nouns have the same form both for plurality and 
singularity: 
Singular Plural 
sheep sheep 
fish fish 
deer deer
We have already spoken about the existence of two case forms of 
nouns in the theoretical part of the manual. 
There are some peculiarities of the expression of case forms in 
English: 
1. Indeclinable nouns have no case opposition, as they include lifeless 
objects such as a room, a chair, a house, a table, an air, love, hope, 
hatred, feeling.
But sometimes even lifeless objects can have the morpheme of the 
genitive case: 
1. The local school board’s ruling (organization) 
2. Canada’s foreign language press (place) 
3.Inanimate objects: Activities : Units of time : 
chair’s foot Boston’s laws a two month’s holiday 
school’s gates privacy's law a two hour’s lesson 
In poetry and higher literary style, the genitive of lifeless things is 
used in many cases where “of” would be used in ordinary speech.
Sometimes the implicit form of the genitive case is used to create the 
euphony aspect of expression: 
The Fountains of Rome Roman Fountains
The streets of Rome Roman streets
By using implicit genitive in these cases we avoid the high level of 
formality. 
In the Uzbek language this peculiarity of not using the genitive case 
(qaratqich kelishigi) for the euphony aspect of expression is also 
observed: ShaharO darvozasi, maktabO binosi, ToshkentO ko’chalari 
keng va chiroyli. 

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Many linguists speak about analytical case forms. They find four or 
six case forms in modern English. These case forms by their opinion 
are expressed with the help of prepositions and word order, but we 
can`t agree with this view-point, because every analytical form must 
have its synthetic opposition where one form is opposed to the other 
with the same grammatical meaning: 
KamolaO bought a new bag - Kamola