Animate and inanimate objects rule. How to determine whether animate or inanimate object

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It Seems that to distinguish between animate and inanimate objects embarrassingly simple: it's like playing in a living-nonliving. But those who are guided by this principle, very much mistaken. Animacy as, respectively, and inanimation – a separate category in the feature of the noun, has nothing to do with outward signs of some object. Here's how to explain the fact that, according to the rules, the word "corpse" is considered to be inanimate, as “dead” - animated? To act at random? In any case! We understand.

For the kids

Let's Start with the basics. Animate and inanimate objects to answer different questions – “who” and “what” respectively. We can say, posing the question – the most primitive, though very unreliable way to determine this category. Usually with him introduce children in first and second class. In order to practice this method, it is possible together with the students to fill in the blanks in the following text:

animate and inanimate objects

In the sleepy slumber of the great flows (what?). Around (what?) and (what?). (Who?) slowly moved skiing, shakes (what?) with ears hats. (Who?) quickly made the hole, and began (what?). Soon he pulled out a huge (anyone?). His mirror (what?) glittered in the sun”. The words proposed to be inserted: Ice, scale, Fisher, frost, river, carp, snow, fishing. One word is repeated twice.

Grammatical explanation

But it is necessary to go further, right? How to determine whether animate or inanimate object based on rules and not on intuition? The difference between these two categories is in various case forms of noun names. Inanimate nouns have the same nominative and accusative plural, while animate-genitive and the accusative in the same number. Of course, dealing with specific examples, it will be much easier.

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animate and inanimate object rule

Take the noun “Cat”. Put it in the plural “cats” and begin to persuade: nominative - “Cats”, genitive – “Cats" of accusative - “Cats” – as you can see, the same form for genitive and accusative cases. Whereas for the noun “Table”, which is for this definition becomes “Tables” in the decline “Tables-tables-tables” the same be accusative and nominative.

Thus, to divide the animate and inanimate object rule allows only when staging them in the plural and the subsequent decline. And further, by the coincidence of case forms, and is defined by this category.

Exceptions

But as you know, in Russian there are very few rules that have no exceptions. So, to divide the animate and inanimate objects are sometimes and logically. Yes, all living beings are animate, but this category also includes mythical creatures (The devil-devils-devils-devils) and the names of toys (Dolls-dolls-dolls) – here you can still find a logical explanation. As well as card suits and chess-pieces (Peaks peak peaks, pawns-pawns-pawns), which even forms its to this category do not fit.

how to identify the animate or inanimate object

Go ahead. Same for inanimate nouns, in turn, are large groups of people (The crowd-crowd-crowd) and some live organisms (The germs-germs-germs; the germs-germs-germs) – to explain this phenomenon is impossible, will just have to take and remember.

Complexity

I would Like to add that animate and inanimate objects in the grammatical sense, have their own characteristics. For example, for animate masculine nouns have the same form for genitive and accusative cases in the singular: Anton-Anton-Anton, accountant-accountant-accountant, however, observed this phenomenon only in nouns of the second declension (compare: Dima-Dima-Dima, though it is also animate noun masculine). So, in principle, this pattern can be used as another simple, though not very well known, the method of determining the category of the animate nouns.

animate and inanimate objects for preschoolers

Want to Confuse

It is Worth noting that in the Russian language found a picture of an inanimate object as animate. This is usually associated with the use of the word as an analogy to a living being: The barn is a mattress – Yes he is weak-willed mattress! or Great and mighty Russian language! – This language (=the prisoner) will tell us everything.

image of an inanimate object as animate it

The same phenomenon occurs with the use of animate nouns as inanimate: In the blue sky the kite soars, the Fighter went on the decline. Here, the category of animate and inanimate is determined based on the content of the noun.

It is Worth noting that, despite all the demandsteachers use the rules, the majority of students continue to rely on intuition. As shown by the examples above, gut instinct is not always reliable assistant in matters of Philology. We can say that animate will always be the names of occupations, names of people in family, nationality, and other groups, this may also include the names of animals. Incidentally, among animate nouns, according to some researchers, there are words only the masculine and feminine, while the neuter - it is inanimate, like all of the names of objects of nature and other objects.

Practice for the kids

Now that we figured out how to distinguish one category from the other nouns, is to summarize all of the above. Animate and inanimate objects for preschoolers, who still have no idea about what the cases differ in the questions “who” and “what” respectively. For practice you can play with the kids in the “living-non-living”, where is a word and the child must identify what is this object.

how to distinguish between animate and inanimate objects

Or another interesting activity for younger pupils – to offer a number of animate nouns that replace a single letter can transform into inanimate: Fox (lime), goat (Kosa), Heron (drop).

Advice for Teens

To Finish the article about how to distinguish between animate and inanimate objects, I would like that, no matter how simple this may seem a topic better not to tempt fate and not to act at random, trusting intuition. A moment spent verifying the category of the noun, sometimes it may change your view of him. So do not spare forces and practice in the great and mighty Russian language.


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