Converse of object

• inherit: We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

• orbit: GPS handsets pick up signals from satellites orbiting the Earth.

• scorch: This policy was known as " scorched earth " and it was not expected by the Germans and severely hindered their armies.

• roam: We worked to put bread on our plates and roamed the earth between jobs.

• shake: The war cry of Zulu filled the sky and the tread of Zulu shook the earth.

• invade: They have constructed these things for the sole purpose of invading Earth.

Adjective modifier

• bare: A loaf of bread and bare earth for a bed in the company of the beloved, is full happiness.

• spherical: He rejected all the Greek philosophers, and in doing so also rejected a spherical Earth.

• compacted: The playgrounds were made of compacted earth until 1933 when drains were put in and they were asphalted.

Modifies a noun

• science: Students take core modules in biology, geography and earth sciences but the course also offers considerable choice through a range of module options.

• mound: Additional screening through earth mounds or planting may be needed.

• mystery: A great deal of work has been done by earth mystery researchers to suggest that certain geophysical conditions may affect the human mind.

Noun used with modifier

• planet: Electromagnetic waves of that blast reached planet Earth on March 19th.

Possessives

• crust: Great cracks appeared in the earth's crust near Stirling.

• orbit: The Earth's orbit around the sun is elliptical with the sun at one focus of the ellipse, not the center.

• surface: They would even put an air hole up from the casket to the earth's surface.

• atmosphere: Unable to penetrate the Earth's atmosphere, the X-rays from the flare can only be detected from space.

• magnetosphere: The Earth's Magnetosphere A fundamental property of space plasmas is that they are collisionless, and as such have extremely high conductivity.

• rotation: The Earth's rotation carries the Earth's bulges slightly ahead of the point directly beneath the Moon.

Preposition: with

• bump: Yet we were brought to earth with a bump in Aboyne.