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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: pronoun ' you' is used by courtesy for the singular ' thou.' In translating therefore from English to Latin, 'you' may be considered singular, unless it is marked as plural, or it is clear from the context that it is meant to be plural. CHAPTER II. NOMINATIVE CASE. A. The noun naming the subject of the sentence, or the Subject-word, is in the Nominative case: as, Dominus ambulat. The lord walks. B. If the subject-word be a Pronoun, it is commonly omitted, unless required for distinction or emphasis: as, Ambulo. Ambulas. Ambula. I walk. You walk. Walk. But Eso ambulo, tu equitas, I walk, you ride, C. There are many verbs in Latin, called Static' verbs, which have to be translated into English by adjectives with the copula ' be': as, Aqua calet. The water is hot I. They are called static, because they denote states rather than actions. They belong for the most part to the e conjugation: as tepe-o, ' I am warm;' rube-o, ' I am red.' Sometimes an English verb with a similar sense may be found: as, puella rubet, ' the girl is red, ' or ' blushes.' Most of these e stems have also imperfect tenses formed by adding the affix sc, with the sense of ' getting' or ' becoming: ' as, calc-sc-o, ' am getting hot;' tepe-sc-o, ' I am becoming warm.' They are sometimes called Inceptive verbs. As far as construction is concerned, all these verbs come under the head of verbs like ambuh, ' walk' (App. F. I.). CHAPTER III. VOCATIVE CASK. The noun naming the object addressed is in the Vocative case: as, Balbe, dominus ambulat. O Balbus, the lord walks. CHAPTER I]V. . ACCUSATIVE CASE. A. The noun naming the object, to which motion is directed, is in the Accusative case,1 commonly with a preposition (Int. 16): as, Dominus ad Italiam ve...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459019294 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459019296 |
| Weight | 0.75 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 228 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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