ABSTRACT
Greek and Russian, among others, nouns and pronouns assume different forms
or endings when performing specific functions in a sentence. A noun functioning
as the subject of an equational/nominal sentence, or as the performer of an
action in a verbal sentence, for example, may exhibit a different ending from
that used when that noun is the object of a transitive verb. Different languages
employ different cases; the number of cases varies from one language to another.
The three cases that Arabic uses-nominative, accusative and genitive-are
