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Come on, my men; I will lead you.

I, your teacher, desire your success.

You, my pupils, are attentive.

I called on Tom, the tinker.

Friends, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause.

Write simple sentences in which each of the following nouns shall be used in the _three persons_ and in the _three cases_.

Andrew Jackson, Alexander, Yankees.

Write a sentence containing a noun in the _nominative_ case, used as an _attribute;_ one in the _nominative_, used as an _explanatory modifier_; one in the _nominative_, used independently.

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 p.r.o.nOUNS.--DECLENSION.

+DEFINITION.--_Declension_ is the arrangement of the cases of nouns and p.r.o.nouns 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.

Declension of p.r.o.nouns.

PERSONAL p.r.o.nOUNS.

FIRST PERSON.

_Singular_. _Plural_.

_Nom._ I, we, _Pos._ my _or_ mine, our _or_ ours, _Obj._ me; us.

SECOND PERSON--_common form_.

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