Declension

Let us examine the forms of the nouns boy, man, lady, child, given below and thus learn their declension.

We see by the above declension of the words boy, man, child and lady that nouns have two forms only for the singular and two for the plural.

The nominative and objective singular, and the nomina-tive and objective plural are alike in form in all nouns.

The possessive form of nouns is always indicated by the apostrophe (').