minam amat
Dominam filia amat
Amat dominam filia
Filia amat dominam
_The daughter loves the lady_

_a._ Observe that in each case the subject of the sentence ends in
-a and the object in -am. The _form_ of the noun shows how it is
used in the sentence, and the order of the words has no effect on
the essential meaning.

2. As stated above (Sec. 23), this change of ending is called
/declension\, and each different ending produces what is called a
/case\. When we decline a noun, we give all its different cases, or
changes of endings. In English we have three cases,--nominative,
possessive, and objective; but, in nouns, the nominative and objective
have the same form, and only the possessive case shows a change of
ending, by adding _'s_ or the apostrophe. The interrogative pronoun,
however, has the fuller declension, _who?_ _whose?_ _whom?_

_33._ The following table shows a comparison between English and Latin
declension forms, and should be thoroughly memorized:

ENGLISH CASES LATIN CASES
+---+-------------+--------------+------------------+----------------+
| | Declension | Name of case | Declension of | Name of case |
| | of _who?_ | and use | /domina\ | and use |
| | | | and translation | |
+---+-------------+--------------+------------------+----------------+
| | Who? | Nominative-- | do'min-a | Nominative-- |
| S | | case of the | _the lady_ | case of the |
| I | | subject | | subject |
| N | | | | |
| G | Whose? | Possessive-- | domin-ae | Genitive-- |
| U | | case of the | _the lady's_ | case of the |
| L | | possessor | _of the lady_ | possessor |
| A | | | | |
| R | Whom? | Objective-- | domin-am | Accusative-- |
| | | case of the | _the lady_ | case of the |
| | | object | | direct object |
+---+-------------+--------------+------------------+----------------+
| | Who? | Nominative-- | domin-ae | Nominative-- |
| | | case of the | _the ladies_ | case of t