Graded Lessons in English / An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room

by Alonzo Reed; Brainerd Kellogg

Write a sentence containing a noun in the objective case, used to complete two predicate verbs; one used to complete a participle; one used to complete an infinitive; one used with a preposition to make a phrase; one used as an explanatory modifier.

+To the Teacher+.—See pp. 183, 184.

LESSON 83.

NOUNS AND PRONOUNS.—DECLENSION.

+DEFINITION.—Declension is the arrangement of the cases of nouns and pronouns in the two numbers+.

Declension of Nouns.

LADY.

Singular. Plural. Nom. lady, ladies, Pos. lady's, ladies', Obj. lady; ladies.

CHILD.

Singular. Plural. Nom. child, children, Pos. child's, children's, Obj. child; children.