Breakdown of Моя дочь любит самостоятельно делать уроки без моей помощи.
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Моя дочь is in the nominative case, because it is the subject of the sentence – the one who likes doing the homework.
- Кто любит? – моя дочь. (Who likes it? – my daughter.)
- Subjects in Russian normally appear in the nominative, so we use моя (nom. fem. sg.) + дочь (nom. fem. sg.).
Мою дочь is the accusative form and would be used if my daughter were the object, e.g.:
- Я люблю мою дочь. – I love my daughter.
(Here I am the subject, my daughter is the object.)
In your sentence, my daughter is doing the liking, so nominative моя дочь is correct.
Russian uses любить + imperfective infinitive to talk about general likes, habits, preferences.
- любить делать (что-то) = to like doing something (in general, habitually).
The verb делать is imperfective, which is the default form for:
- repeated actions
- general statements
- activities you enjoy as an ongoing thing
Сделать is perfective and usually focuses on one complete result:
- Любит сделать is almost never used; it sounds wrong or at least very odd in this meaning.