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Chapter VIII - Key Words And Abbreviations Flashcards

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Incipiant lūdī!

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Let the games begin!

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Fēlīciter et tibi!

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I hope that things are going as well/happily/luckily for you as they have been going for me!

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Noun

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A person, place, thing

E.g. men, Rome, bagpipe

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Exemplī grātiā

E.g.

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For the sake of example

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Pronoun

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Stands in for a noun

E.g. those, she, who

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Verb

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Shows an action or existence

E.g. drink, was, happen

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Adjective

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Describes a noun

E.g. green, tall, seventeenth

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Adverb

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Modifies VERBS, adjectives and other adverbs

E.g. yesterday, quickly, often, highly, considerably, very, quite

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Conjunction

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Connects words, phrases or clauses

E.g. yes OR no, over the river AND through the woods, I’ll be here WHEN they come

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Preposition

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Shows a relationship between words

E.g. the fool ON the hill

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Interjection

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Exclamation words

E.g. uh-oh, yeah!

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Versus

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Turned against or opposing

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Nominative

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Subject of action

E.g. HE walked the dog

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Genitive

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Links nouns without equating them - usually shows possession
How you tell which declension a noun belongs to
E.g. HIS idea was ridiculous

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Dative

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Personal interest - shows who the action gives advantage or disadvantage to
Can also be used to show possession when you want to stress the owned object (Liber mihi est - the book is mine (for me))
E.g. It was an interesting day FOR HIM

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Accusative

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Where action stops - the direct object

E.g. I smacked HIM

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Ablative

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Where action starts

E.g. The bookcase was built BY HIM

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Instrumental

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Goes alongside action

E.g. We went to Rome WITH HIM

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Locative

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Where action takes place

E.g. A bug was crawling ON HIM

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Vocative

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Person adressed

E.g. DUDE!

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Et alia

Et al.

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And (an unknown number) of other things (open set)

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Person

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Speaker’s point of view

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Number

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Whether it is singular or plural

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Tense (Aspect)

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Not just when it is happening, but also whether it is in the process of happening or is a single completed act

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Present Tense

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I am going
Now
Continuous Aspect (Present System)

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Imperfect tense

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I was going / I used to go / I kept going / I began going / I started going / I went
Earlier
Continuous Aspect (Present System)

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Future tense

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I will go
Later
Continuous Aspect (Present System)

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Perfect tense

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I went / I did go / I have gone
Now
Completed Aspect (Perfect System)

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Pluperfect Tense

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I had gone
Earlier
Completed Aspect (Perfect System)

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Future Perfect tense

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I will have gone
Later
Completed Aspect (Perfect System)

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Mood

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Refers to the way a speaker treats an action

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Indicative mood

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The speaker treats the action as a fact

E.g. He is here

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Imperative mood

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The speaker treats an action as a command

E.g. Be here!

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Subjunctive mood

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Treats the action as an idea or a wish

E.g. If he were here…

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Infinitive mood

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Refers to an action in general without assigning any person to it
E.g. To be

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Voice

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To do with the grammatical subject’s relationship to the verb

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Active voice

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When the subject is performing the action

E.g. He loves me

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Passive voice

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The subject receives the action

E.g. I am loved

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Middle voice

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The subject performs the action on himself or for his own benefit
E.g. I love myself

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Syntax

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The way words show their relationship to each other

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Id est

I.e.

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That is

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First person

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The speaker - I if alone, we in a group

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Second person

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Whomever is being spoken to - you

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Third person

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Anyone else - he, she, it, they

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Declensions

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The way that nouns are grouped

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Case endings

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The way noun endings change to show their relationship to other words in the sentence

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Conjugations

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The way in which verbs are grouped

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Et cētera

Etc.

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And the other things (closed set)

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Continuous aspect

Present system

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Shows action in the midst of happening

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Completed aspect

Perfect system

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Refers to an actions that has been or we’ll be completed in past, present or future time

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Principle parts

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Four examples of a verb that show how it conjugates

E.g. moneō, monēre, monuī, monitum - to warn

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First principle part

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First person, singular, present tense

E.g. monēo - I am warning

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Second principle part

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Present infinitive

E.g. monēre - to warn

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Infinitive

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Part of verb most used to conjugate

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Third principle part

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First person, singular, perfect tense

E.g. monuī - I warned

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Fourth participle part

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Either ends in -um or -us, shows stem

E.g. monitum, monitus - monit-

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Analysis

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A change in word order to show grammatical function

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Syllabic Augment

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One way present stem is formed is by adding a syllable to the end of the present stem, usually -āv-, -īv- or -u-.
Amō, Amāre, AMĀVĪ, Amātum - To Love
Cupiō, Cupere, CUPĪVĪ, Cupītum - To Desire
Moneō, Monēre, MONUĪ, Monitum - To Warn

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Temporal Augment

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Some verbs form their perfect stems by increasing the length of the present stem’s vowel (often a slight vowel change also occurs, making them tricky to identify).
Moveō, Movēre, MŌVĪ, Mōtum - To Move
Emō, Emere, ĒMĪ, Emptum - To Buy
Capiō, Capere, CĒPĪ, Captum - To Take

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Aorist

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Another way to recognise a perfect stem is to look for an aorist marker, usually signified by the attaché run of an -s- or -x- to the present system’s stem.
Maneō, Manēre, MANSĪ, Mansum - To Stay
Claudō, Claudere, CLAUSĪ, Clausum - To Close
Intellegō, Intellegere, INTELLEXĪ, Intellectum - To Understand
Mittō, Mittere, MĪSĪ, Missum - To Send

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Reduplication

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When the first two letters of the present stem are repeated and added to the beginning to form the perfect stem (at times, there will be slight vowel changes).
Currō, Currere, CUCURRĪ, Cursum - To Run
Pellō, Pellere, PEPULĪ, Pulsum - To Drive

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Reduplication with prefix

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When a reduplicating verb has a prefix, the prefix takes the place of the reduplicating syllable.
Recurrō, Recurrere, RECURRĪ, Recursum - To Run Back
Expellō, Expellere, EXPULĪ, Expulsum - To Drive Out

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First Conjugation Verbs

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Ā is the theme vowel
Principal part pattern is nearly always -ō, -āre, -āvi, -ātum
Amō, Amāre, Amāvī, Amātum - To Love

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Second Conjugation Verbs

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Ē is the theme vowel
For about half, the principle part pattern is -eō, -ēre, -uī, -itum
Teneō, Tenēre, Tenuī, Tentum - To Hold

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Third Conjugation Verbs

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E is the theme vowel, but is unstable
No predominant participle part pattern
Mittō, Mittere, Mīsī, Missum - To Send

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Third Conjugation -iō Verbs

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E is their theme vowel, but their first participle part ends in -iō.
Conjugate like regular 3rdCVs but in present system tenses -i- is added between the stem and ending if there isn’t one there already.
Capiō, Capere, Cēpī, Captum - To Take

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Fourth Conjugation Verbs

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Ī is their theme vowel
Principal part pattern is almost always -iō, -īre, -īvī, -ītum
Dormiō, Dormīre, Dormīvī, Dormītum - To Sleep

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N.B.

Notā Bene

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Note Well

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First Declension

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Genitive = -ae

Āla, Ālae = Wing (f.)

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Second Declension

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Genitive = -ī

Dominus, Dominī = Master (m.)

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Third Declension

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Genitive = -is

Homō, Hominis = Person, Human Being (m.)

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Fourth Declension

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Genitive = -ūs

Ēventūs, Ēventūs = Outcome (m.)

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Fifth Declension

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Genitive = -ēī

Rēs, Rēī = Thing (f.)

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Common Gender

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Sometimes assigned to a natural gender noun that could refer to either a male of female person, such as cīvis (citizen).

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Vice Versā

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With the opposites having been turned around

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Vērō

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Really

There is no word for yes

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Minimē

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In the least!

There is no word for no

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Ergō

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Therefore

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Per se

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By themselves

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Transitive Verbs

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Where an action ‘goes across’ from a subject to an object - someone has to pick something (the act of picking requires a picker (subject) and a pickee (direct object)). These verbs need a direct object in order to make sense.

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Intransitive Verbs

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These verbs describe a state of being, such as sleeping. Nothing is being done to anyone; it just is. Verbs of motion fall into this category - if you were going to the store, you weeks put doing anything to the store, but your state of being was just in motion in that direction. Due to this intransitive verbs don’t need (indeed, they cannot have) direct objects.

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Word Order

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In Latin, this is usually subject-object-verb, but obviously check the context.

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Modifiers

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Everything in a Latin sentence exists to modify the verb and thus reduce the possibilities. Nouns show this relationship by taking case endings.

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Predicate Nominatives

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Method by which one equates a noun to the subject by putting it in the nominative case (the predicate being the part of the sentence that isn’t the subject), often with the help of the Latin verb sum, esse, fuī, futūrus (to be).
Ego mīles sum - I am a soldier, Marcus est amīcus meus - Marcus is my friend, Puerī sunt molestī - The boys are pests.

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Appositives

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In this construct the nouns can be in any case and any verb can be used.
Jim, my BROTHER, is buying a truck, a FORD, for his son PAUL.
All the capitalised words are appositives - Jim = brother (both would be nominative as the subject), Ford = truck (both would be accusative as the direct object), Paul = Son (both would be dative, as he benefits).

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