In linguistics, declension's the occurrence of inflection in nouns, pronouns and adjectives, indicating such features as number (typically singular vs. plural), case (subject, object, and so on), gender, and possession. Declension occurs in a great many of the world's languages, and features very prominently in many European languages, but's much less prominent in English. English nouns decline only to distinguish singular from plural (for example, book vs. books); only very few English adjectiv… (More on Declension)