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Page 273 - A Relative pronoun agrees with its Antecedent in gender and number, but its case depends on the construction of the clause in which it stands (§ 198).
Page 11 - We still, however, see the visible marks on the page, and we know that the acute accent ( ' ) can stand only on one of the last three syllables of a word ; the circumflex ( " ) on one of the last two ; the grave ( % ) only on the last.
Page 271 - A word sometimes takes the gender or number, not of the word with which it should regularly agree, but of some other word implied in that word.
Page 80 - In conditional sentences the clause containing the condition is called the protasis, and that containing the conclusion is called the apodosis. The protasis is introduced by some form of el, if.
Page 273 - The reflexive pronouns (401) refer to the subject of the clause in which they stand. Sometimes in a dependent clause they refer to the subject of the leading verb, — that is, they are indirect reflexives (987).
Page 12 - enclitic" in the classical sense of a word which loses its own accent and is pronounced as if it were part of the preceding word, as, eg, hominesque.
Page 56 - Jir&t and second form of the same tense. b. Most verbs, therefore, have only six of the above systems. Many have less than six ; and hardly any verb is used in all nine systems. c. The 'principal parts' of a verb are the first person singular indicative of every system used in it.