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Nom. hlaford, hlaford-_as_.
Gen. hlaford-_es_, hlaford-_a_.
Dat. hlaford-_e_, hlaford-_um_.
Acc. hlaford, hlaford-_as_.
Voc. hlaford, hlaford-_as_.
LATIN.
Dominus, _lord_.
Singular. Plural.
Nom. domin-_us_, domin-_i_.
Gen. domin-_i_, domin-_orum_.
Dat. domin-_o_, domin-_is_.
Acc. domin-_um_, domin-_os_.
Voc. domin-_e_, domin-_i_.
Ab. domin-_o_, domin-_is_.
ENGLISH.
Lord.
Singular.
Nom. lord,
Pos. lord-_'s_,
Obj. lord;
Plural.
Nom. lord-_s_,
Pos. lord-_s'_,
Obj. lord-_s_.]
and one from the Latin, the parent of the Norman-French, in order that you
may see how cases and the inflections to mark them have been dropped in
English. In English, prepositions have largely taken the place of case
forms, and it is thought that by them our language can express the many
relations of nouns to other words in the sentence better than other
languages can by their cumbrous machinery of inflection.

+DEFINITIONS+.
+_Person_ is that modification of a noun or pronoun which denotes the
speaker, the one spoken to, or the one spoken of+.
+The _First Person_ denotes the one speaking+.
+The _Second Person_ denotes the one spoken to+.


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