h) _clothes_ (garments)
DIE _dies_ (for coinage) _dice_ (for games)
FISH _fishes_ (separately) _fish_ (collectively)
GENIUS _geniuses_ (men of genius) _genii_ (imaginary beings)
HEAD _heads_ (of the body) _head_ (of cattle)
INDEX _indexes_ (of books) _indices_ (in algebra)
PEA _peas_ (separately) _pease_ (collectively)
PENNY _pennies_ (separately) _pence_ (collectively)
SAIL _sails_ (pieces of canvas) _sail_ (number of vessels)
SHOT _ shots_ (number of discharges) _shot_ (number of balls)

13. Nouns from foreign languages frequently retain in the plural
the form that they have in the language from which they are taken;
as, _focus, foci; terminus, termini; alumnus, alumni; datum, data;
stratum, strata; formula, formuloe; vortex, vortices; appendix,
appendices; crisis, crises; oasis, oases; axis, axes; phenomenon,
phenomena; automaton, automata; analysis, analyses; hypothesis,
hypotheses; medium, media; vertebra, vertebroe; ellipsis, ellipses;
genus, genera; fungus, fungi; minimum, minima; thesis, theses_.

EXERCISE 3

_Write the plural, if any, of every singular noun in the following
list; and the singular, if any, of every plural noun. Note those
having no singular and those having no plural_.

News, goods, thanks, scissors, proceeds, puppy, studio, survey,
attorney, arch, belief, chief, charity, half, hero, negro, majority,
Mary, vortex, memento, joy, lily, knight-templar, knight-errant, why,
4, x, son-in-law, Miss Smith, Mr. Anderson, country-man, hanger-on,
major-general, oxen, geese, man-servant, brethren, strata, sheep,
mathematics, pride, money, pea, head, piano, veto, knives, ratios,
alumni, feet, wolves, president, sailor-boy, spoonful, rope-ladder,
grandmother, attorney-general, cupful, go-between.

_When in doubt respecting the form of any of the above, consult
an unabridged dictionary._

14. CASE. There are three cases in English: the Nominative, the
Possessive, and the Objective.

The NOMINATIVE CASE; the form used in address and as the subject
of a verb.

The OBJECTIVE CASE; the form used as the object of a verb or a
preposition. It is always the same in form as is the nominative.

Since no error in grammar can arise in the use of the nominative
or the objective cases of nouns, no further discussion of these
cases is here needed.

The POSSESSIVE CASE; the form used to show ownership. In the forming
of this case we have inflect