This section is from the book "Two Years' Course In English Composition", by Charles Lane Hanson. Also available from Amazon: Two Years' Course In English Composition.
Nouns are inflected to show differences in number and case. Such an inflection of a noun is called a declension. For example:
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | girl | girls |
girl's | girls' | |
Objective | girl | girls |
Singular | Plural |
fairy | fairies |
fairy's | fairies' |
fairy | fairies |
 
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