Cheever's Latin Accidence: An Elementary Grammar, for Beginners in the Study of the Latin Language

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Boston type and stereotype foundry, 1838 - 72 páginas

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Página 12 - There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative.
Página 6 - CASES OF NOUNS. Nouns have six cases in each number : the nominative, the genitive, the dative, the accusative, the vocative, and the ablative. The nominative case comes before the verb, and answers to the question, who?
Página 4 - ". Two inverted commas are generally placed at the beginning of a phrase or a passage, which is quoted or transcribed from the speaker or author in his own words; and two commas in their direct position, are placed at the conclusion : as, "The proper study of mankind is man.
Página 6 - Number is that property of a noun which denotes whether one object or collection of objects is meant, or more than one. Nouns have two numbers: the Singular and the Plural.
Página 43 - candidate " or "practitioner" would admit both sexes ; and I do not think that the use of the word " gentleman," or " person," or " his," will in the least militate against that. We know how the word is used in all documents. Even in one's early grammar, we find that the male gender is more worthy than the feminine, and the feminine than the neuter.
Página 42 - The prepositions in, sub, super, and subter, govern the accusative, when motion to a place is signified ; but when motion or rest in a place is signified, in and sub, govern the ablative ; super and subter either the accusative or ablative.
Página 44 - The name of a town (91) where any thing is or is done, if of the first or second declension, and singular number, is put in the genitive ! otherwise, in the ablative ; eg, 1.
Página 8 - Nouns of the neuter gender are generally of the second and third declension ; and make the nominative, the accusative, and the vocative cases alike, in both numbers; and in the plural number these cases end all in a; as, <r\v Singular.
Página 17 - There are four moods, the indicative, imperative, subjunctive, and the infinitive. The indicative mood either declares a thing positively, as, ego amo, I...
Página 13 - And it is formed from the first case of the positive that ends in i, by adding or for the masculine and feminine genders, and MS for the neuter : as, from Doctus, gen.

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