Indo-European languages were originally highly inflected. What this means is that nouns
changed form to indicate how they functioned grammatically in sentences. The different forms of
nouns are known as "cases" and the ways in which ending change to reflect their
syntactic functions is known as "declension." In other words, while the term
"conjugate" describes the way verbs change with respect to number, tense, and mood,
nouns are "declined" with respect to gender, number, and case. In Old English, all
nouns were declined but in modern English only pronouns are declined. In English, there are
three pronoun cases:
- Subjective or Nominative: This case is used
for subjects of sentences and subject complements. Examples would be "I,"
"we," and "she." - Objective or Accusative: This case is
used for direct and indirect objects of verbs and objects of prepositions. Examples would be
us, him, or them. - Possessive or Genitive: This form is used to
indicate possession such as the... href="https://web.ku.edu/~edit/pronouns.html">https://web.ku.edu/~edit/pronouns.html
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