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allotted. Each declension of nouns has another ending and partly
by gender of nouns.
The major allomorphic features in the system of noun
categories is the existence in Ukrainian of dual number which is
often mixed up with the plural or replaced by it by many
Ukrainians. The nouns express dual number only in connection
with the numeral adjuncts: two, three, and four. This number is
mostly indicated by stem which differs as a rule, from that of a
plural form.
Typologically isomorphic is the existence in English and
Ukrainian of the classes of singularia and pluralia tantum nouns
mostly expressing quantity.

The Category of Case

Unlike the category of number, the category of case in
present-day English has always been disputable. Some
grammarians found in present-day English two cases
(O. Jesperson, B. Rohovska, B. Khaimovich), others found in
English four cases (G. Curme, N. Deutschbein), and still other
grammarians were inclined to see in English five or six and more
cases. The Russian grammarian G. Vorontsova recognized no
cases in the English language at all, since the -‘s sign she treated as
a postpositive particle expressing possession.
The majority of English nouns are used in the common
case. The English possessive case can be subdivided into
dependent possessive case and independent possessive case.
Unlike English Ukrainian has a very complicated system of noun
declension.

The Category of Gender

No identity exists in the contrasted languages in the
expression of the category of gender. In Ukrainian there are three

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