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    Anne Mahoney, Overview of Latin Syntax

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    Nouns, Adjectives, and Pronouns

    The nominal system comprises nouns, adjectives, and pronouns: the classes of words that inflect for number and case. Participles (and gerundives) are adjectives formed from verbs; infinitives (and supines and gerunds) are nouns formed from verbs.

    Agreement

    Adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number, gender, and case. AG 286

    Nouns in apposition to each other have the same case. AG 282

    Pronouns take the number, gender, and case of the nouns they stand for. AG 295

    The case of a relative pronoun depends on its function in the relative clause, not of the case of its antecedent. AG 305



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    Overview of Latin Syntax. Anne Mahoney. 2000. Text created electronically.


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