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While pronunciation and large English lexicon constitute disadvantages, simplicity of form may easily outweigh them - Polish, Spanish, German or Greek operate on the basis of inflections which indicate singular or plural, person and tense. One of the examples supporting that statement would be the conjugation of the English verb in Simple Present Tense. Adding -s or -es endings in the third person singular seems to be an easy task in comparison with the same procedure in Russian or German. There are seven cases in the declination of the Polish noun and the chore becomes even more complicated if adjectives precede the noun. In English, adjectives do not change according to the noun.