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THE FORMIDABLE CASES




 It all started with cases. I was on the lookout for cases. The cases of lawyers and doctors. The round ones, square ones, or the oblong ones and the others that lay obscured. Eventually, I found them. They could never have escaped notice from an observant eye. Mine, I doubted, especially with the near vision defect so usual at my age.

Nevertheless, I had come a long way. Searching the internet was becoming my forte. If researchers were to configure reports, they could amass volumes of vital information.

I harped on ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ and my list became a Schindler’s List. Meaningfully, I braced and donned the detective hat for the quest of cases.

What I discovered knocked me down. These were always there -the cases. I Googled, only to know what I had overlooked in my desperation for something worthwhile. I read it all over again. My cases nestled with “Noun is a name of a person, place, or thing.”

Do I need to know more about cases? Why not? I giggled my way to the enchanting world of noun cases.

The subject case and the Object case: A dynamic duo in English grammar where the subject case works and the object case stays behind, together bringing life to our sentences.




 
 

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