either masculine, feminine, or neuter as well as any of the cases that we have learned in chapters 1 and 2. The fact that the adjectives are inflected leads to another difference. Adjectives will match the noun that they refer to in gender*, number*, and case*. This can often be a helpful grammatical aid. An example might be the sentence, “The boy caught the dog while he was howling.” The question, of course, that comes to mind is to which noun does the adjective “howling” (actually, a verbal adjective,