case agreement
- noun
- /keɪs əˈɡriːmənt/
- Specialized
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acuerdo de caso
- The lack of case agreement in the translation led to grammatical errors.
Examples
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What is case agreement?
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Teachers explained case agreement by showing how determiners change in different sentence roles.
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In Latin, case agreement requires adjectives to match the case of the nouns they modify.
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In English, case agreement is important.
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In the sentence, the verb must match the noun in case agreement for the sentence to be grammatically correct.
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Finding case agreement between the words in your writing can enhance clarity and understanding.
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Teachers often explain case agreement to help students understand grammatical structures better.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'correspondence in grammatical case between words' is directly and compositionally derived from 'case' (an inflectional category) plus 'agreement' (matching forms), so the overall concept follows transparently from the constituents. This is a standard grammatical compound with clear cross-linguistic parallels, so a B1 learner who knows both words should be able to infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Case agreement gives a clear picture: imagine two words making an agreement to wear the same case, like matching name tags that show their job in the sentence. That's why case agreement means one word must use the same case form as the word it goes with.
