Case / Suffix Sticker
What sign sticks to the word?
Ý nghĩa
A visible marker attached to a word that shows role, relation, number, tense, person, case, direction, or other grammatical function.
Cách nhận biết
Look for small endings that change the word's role or meaning.
Ví dụ
-s|-ed|-ing|case endings|plural endings
dogs|walked|house's
The teacher corrected the students' essays.
Visual guide
word + suffix sticker --------------------- dog + -s -> dogs walk + -ed -> walked house + 's -> house's ending = grammar signal
Same job, different coding no ending: dog (context) word: plural marker + dog suffix: dog + -s -> dogs many endings can encode: role, number, time, person
Góc nhìn theo ngôn ngữ
Trong ngôn ngữ mẹ đẻ của Bạn
Vietnamese has no grammatical case endings; relations are shown by word order, prepositions and context.
Tôi gặp Lan.
I meet Lan
Trong ngôn ngữ Bạn đang học
English has very little case marking, mainly in pronouns and possessive forms.
She saw him.
he/him = limited case marking in pronouns
Learners from case-rich languages may expect noun endings; learners from case-poor languages may still confuse he/him.
Good transfer potential
This block behaves relatively similarly, so you can transfer intuition more safely between the two languages.