Part-Whole Relation
What is it part of?
Significado
A relation where one thing is a part, member, ingredient, section, surface, feature, or component of another.
Como identificar
Ask whether one entity belongs structurally inside another.
Exemplos
roof|hand|page|piece|member
the roof of the house|a piece of cake|part of the team
The roof of the house is red.
Visual guide
WHOLE └─ PART / member house └─ roof team └─ member Ask: part of what?
Same relation, different forms: English: roof of the house Genitive: house-GEN roof Compound: house-roof Partitive: piece of cake Not just ownership.
Vista por língua
Na tua língua materna
Part-whole relations are commonly encoded with de and contractions such as do and da.
O teto da casa é vermelho.
The roof of the house is red.
Na tua língua de aprendizagem
English uses of-phrases, possessive forms, and noun compounds for part-whole relations.
The roof of the house is old.
of the house = part-whole relation
Learners may overuse possessive 's or translate part-whole relations too literally.
Same block, different coding
Both languages use this block strongly, but they signal it differently. Focus on form changes, not only meaning.