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use of nominative

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subject of sentence or clauses

complement eg. this girl is MY SISTER

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uses of vocative

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direct adress

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uses of accusative

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direct object in sentence or clause yet note eg. poor me = me miserum
motion through preposition eg. to italy = Ad Italiam/Romam
time expressions - how long
indirect statement, subject of infinitive
of respect or part affected

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uses of genitive

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possession
partitive eg. more food (more of food)
genitive of quality eg. wise of man (man of wisdom)
after certain verbs and adjectives
causa + gerund/gerundive in genitive (for the purpose of sleeping)

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uses of dative

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indirect object (he gave..to…)
advantage (for…)
after certain verbs and adjectives
possession
agent eg. all the words need to be learnt by us
predicative eg. this book is a source of help to me

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uses of ablative

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with preposition
agent and instrument eg. killed by guard (agent) with sword (instrument)
time - at/when
comparison, ablative without quam
physical description 
price eg. at/for a big price 
after certain verbs/adjectives 
ablative absolute
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