Re: OT: Latin subject-verb agreement
| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 13, 2007, 0:36 |
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In a message dated 12/12/2007 1:25:22 PM Central Standard Time,
phil@PHILLIPDRISCOLL.COM writes:
> > Is it possible in Latin to have a 1st or 2nd
> > person verb and a noun subject? For example,
> > is "Pueri sumus boni" (We boys are good)
> > grammatical?
>
> I'd expect more like "Nos pueri boni sumus."
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> ("We boys are good" or "We are good boys.")
>
> --Ph. D.
>
Yes, but is it possible without "nos"?
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