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24 4. The accusative of words signifying animals is formed from the nominative by affixing or. Words signifying inanimate substances take no inflection in this case, unless they are personified. If personified th eythey [sic] are inflected like masculine or feminine nouns.

5. The instrumental is formed by affixing or. It is expressed by by, through, and sometimes for.

6. The dative is uniformly the same with the accusative.

7. The ablative of nouns which mean inanimate things is frequently made by, or. Some other word, as, upon, , near, or a word meaning some particular part of the body, is generally put between nouns meaning animals and the above affixes. Ex., from upon the horse.