Quick grammer question - CASES

[UDUT, KENNETH]

Hello again SEELANGS!  I hope one day I will be able to actually
contribute something of merit to the list, but for now, I just have
questions here and there, about this and that.  You have all been quite
gracious with me so far - thank you for that!

I have been struggling over the past two days with cases.  I never did
well in English with this sort of thing, and trying learn it in Russian
has been forcing me to go back to basic English grammer texts, which has
helped in understanding of Russian cases quite a bit.

My question/request is:

Could someone provide a sentence, in English, then in Russian, which
contains all of the normal cases?  [nominative, genitive, dative,
accusative, instrumental, and prepositional/locative]

For example, I *think* a sentence which has nominative, dative and
accusative, might be:

I taught Joe math.

NOMINATIVE: [kto?] Who taught Joe math?  I.

DATIVE: ["kamOO"?] To whom was math taught?  Joe.

ACCUSATIVE: ["shto"?] I taught Joe what? [or What did I teach Joe?]
Math.


I might have this wrong [and *please* correct me if it is wrong], but in
case this is right, this is about as far as I have gotten in
comprehending cases.

I hope to be able to comprehend this soon, as the next couple of
chapters (I am using Living Language for the time being, and hopeful
that I will be able to take classes soon] look relatively easy.


I am grateful to everyone here who made it very very clear to me that
GRAMMER must come first and be mastered as much as is possible,
otherwise I almost certainly would have put grammer in 2nd place and
passed over these things until I regretted it later on.


So, does anybody have a sentence that contains each of these cases?
This way, I can keep asking the various questions to the sentence until
all of this case stuff starts to 'click in'.



Thank you so much!

-Kenneth
kenneth.udut at spcorp.com