Q: Case is a special grammatical category of a noun, pronoun, adjective, participle or numeral whose value reflects the grammatical function performed by that word in a phrase, clause, or sentence. In some languages, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, determiners, participles, prepositions, numerals, articles and their modifiers take different inflected forms depending on what case they are in. As a language evolves, cases can merge (for instance, in Ancient Greek, the locative case merged with the dative), a phenomenon formally called syncretism.

English has largely lost its case system, although personal pronouns still have three cases that are simplified forms of the nominative, accusative and genitive cases: subjective case (I, you, he, she, it, we, they, who, whoever), objective case (me, you, him, her, it, us, them, whom, whomever) and possessive case (my, mine; your, yours; his; her, hers; its; our, ours; their, theirs; whose; whosever). Forms such as "I", "he" and "we" are used for the subject ("I kicked the ball"), whereas forms such as "me", "him" and "us" are used for the object ("John kicked me").

Languages such as Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, Latin, Armenian, Hungarian, Tibetan, Czech, Slovak, Turkish, Tamil, Romanian, Russian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Estonian, Finnish, Icelandic, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Basque, Esperanto and the majority of Caucasian languages have extensive case systems, with nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and determiners all inflecting (usually by means of different suffixes) to indicate their case. The number of cases differs between languages: German and Icelandic have four; Turkish, Latin and Russian each have at least six; Armenian, Czech, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian have seven; Sanskrit has eight; Estonian and Finnish have fifteen, Hungarian has eighteen and Tsez has sixty-four.

1. a special grammatical category of a noun, pronoun, adjective, participle or numeral whose value reflects the grammatical function performed by that word in a phrase, clause, or sentence. In some languages, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, determiners, participles, prepositions, numerals, articles and their modifiers take different inflected forms depending on what case they are in
2. it has largely lost its case system
3. yes
4. no
5. four
6. they each have at least six
7. sixty-four
8. the object
9. they are used for the subject
10. three

Numbered questions:
1. What is case?
2. Is there a case system in English?
3. Does Esperanto have an extensive case system?
4. Between languages does the number of cases stay the same?
5. How many does German and Icelandic have?
6. What about Turkish, Latin and Russian?
7. What about Tsez?
8. What are forms such as me, him and us used for?
9. What about I, he, and we?
10. How many cases do personal pronouns still have in English?

CHAPTER XXXIX.

A NEW FLIRTATION.

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John Eames sat at his office on the day after his return to London, and answered the various letters which he had found waiting for him at his lodgings on the previous evening. To Miss Demolines he had already written from his club,--a single line, which he considered to be appropriate to the mysterious necessities of the occasion. "I will be with you at a quarter to six to-morrow.--J. E. Just returned." There was not another word; and as he scrawled it at one of the club tables while two or three men were talking to him, he felt rather proud of his correspondence. "It was capital fun," he said; "and after all,"--the "all" on this occasion being Lily Dale, and the sadness of his disappointment at Allington,--"after all, let a fellow be ever so down in the mouth, a little amusement should do him good." And he reflected further that the more a fellow be "down in the mouth," the more good the amusement would do him. He sent off his note, therefore, with some little inward rejoicing,--and a word or two also of spoken rejoicing. "What fun women are sometimes," he said to one of his friends,--a friend with whom he was very intimate, calling him always Fred, and slapping his back, but whom he never by any chance saw out of his club.

"What's up now, Johnny? Some good fortune?"

"Good fortune; no. I never have good fortunes of that kind. But I've got hold of a young woman,--or rather a young woman has got hold of me, who insists on having a mystery with me. In the mystery itself there is not the slightest interest. But the mysteriousness of it is charming. I have just written to her three words to settle an appointment for to-morrow. We don't sign our names lest the Postmaster-General should find out all about it." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. who never had good fortunes ?
2. who sat at the office ?
3. where did he come from ?
4. what was waiting for him ?
5. did he answer them ?
6. he wrote 1 single line to who ?
7. who just returned ?
8. what happened at Allington
9. of what ?
10. what helps if you are down at the mouth ?
11. and the more a fellow is down what more ?
12. did he send this note ?
13. who sat in the office ?
14. last name ?
15. what time was it to meet with someone ?
16. what day ?
17. what did je do ?
18. how many men were talking to him ?
Answer:
1. Johnny
2. John Eames
3. London
4. letters
5. yes
6. Miss Demolines
7. J. E
8. sadness
9. his disappointment
10. amusement
11. he more good the amusement
12. yes
13. John
14. Eames
15. quarter to six
16. to-morrow
17. returned
18. wo or three men