NOTE.An adjective referring to two nouns connected by the preposition cum is occasionally plural ( synesis, 280. 1.9.21), I enjoy all Csar's favor and resources. 5.294), Nisus and Euryalus first.Ĭaesaris omn et grti et opibus fruor (Fam. With two or more nouns the adjective is regularly plural, but often agrees with the nearest (especially when attributive): NOTE.All rules for the agreement of adjectives apply also to adjective pronouns and to participles. Impertor victus est, the general was beaten.
b).Īdjectives, Adjective Pronouns, and Participles agree with their nouns in Gender, Number, and Case:Ĭum ducents mlitibus, with two hundred soldiers. N.) or it may be used in apposition like a noun ( 282. NOTE.A predicate adjective may be used with sum or a copulative verb ( 283) it may have the construction of a predicate accusative after a verb of naming, calling, or the like ( 393. 21), three farms are handed over to Capito as his own.Ĭnsilium cprunt plnum sceleris ( id. Tria praedia Capitn propria trduntur (Rosc. Stellae lcidae erant, the stars were bright.
All other adjectives are called Predicate Adjectives: An Attributive Adjective simply qualifies its noun without the intervention of a verb or participle, expressed or implied: as, bonus impertor, a good commander stellae lcidae, bright stars verbum Graecum, a Greek word. GLOSSARY: OF TERMS USED IN GRAMMAR, RHETORIC, AND PROSODYĪGREEMENT OF ADJECTIVES Attributive and Predicate AdjectivesĪdjectives are either Attributive or Predicate.ġ.
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