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Declining nouns is spelling the nouns to reflect number, gender, and case.

For example:

  • person (singular), persons (plural)
  • person's (singular possessive case), persons' (plural possessive case)
In English, there is no gender form for the noun 'person', the gender nouns are different words:
  • man (singular, male), men (plural, male), woman (singular, female), women (plural female)
  • girl (singular, female), girls (plural, female), boy (singular, male), boys (plural, male)
  • man's, woman's, girl's, boy's (singular, possessive case)
  • men's, women's, girls', boys' (plural, possessive case)

Many nouns in English do not have variations for number or gender.

Some nouns are called 'uncountable' nouns, words that are singular or plural only; for example:

  • oxygen has no plural form.
  • news has no singular form
  • education has no plural form
As the example of the noun 'person' above, many nouns in English are called 'common gender nouns', a word for a male or a female. Examples of common gender nouns are:
  • parent, parents
  • teacher, teachers
  • horse, horses
  • fly, flies
The last group of nouns are called 'neuter nouns', word for things that have no gender, for example:
  • house, houses
  • hamburger, Hamburgers
  • foot, feet
  • answer, answers
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