53. Case and declension

The lesson, step by step

1. Review

   Ask for the plurals of potato, radio and sister-in-law.

2. One word, many relations

   The book uses "sun" in different sentences: as a subject, a predicate, a possessive, an object, and in "Dear is thy light, O sun!" Read the line:

   These different relations are called Cases.

3. The four cases

   Read:

   Case is the relation of a noun or a pronoun to other words.

   The Nominative Case is the use of a noun or pronoun as the subject or the predicate of a proposition.

   The Objective Case is the use of a noun or pronoun as the object of a transitive verb or of a preposition.

   The possessive shows ownership, and the absolute case is used independently, as in "Soldiers, attention!"

4. Oral practice

   Say sentences and let your child name the case of the noun "dog": The dog barked. I fed the dog. The dog's bowl is empty. Dog, come here!

5. Declension

   Read:

   The Declension of a noun is its variation to denote number and case.

   Look at the book's table for Fly and Goodness, then decline "boy," "girl" and "farmer" in writing, as the book asks.

6. Check together

   Check the declensions with the answers.

7. Use it today

   Find a noun in direct address in today's reading (someone being called by name).