LATIN 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter Ch 5 sec 27 - 29: Grammatical Gender
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* there are no fourth or fifth declensions adjectives. Chapter 5: the adjective, agreement, and substantive use. Substantive use: an adjective can be used without an accompanying noun (this is called the substantive use, the gender and number of the adjective gives extra help in filling in the missing noun. Adjectives are used to make nouns more specific, in latin it means that it is used to be a modifier or a noun. To that can only take one form of gender, for example agricola is only feminine, adjectives can take forms of the masculine, neuter, and feminine gender. To identify the adjective in the sentence, you use adjective to noun agreement. This is where the adjective and noun have the same case, number, and gender. For example, pulchra and puella are both nominative, singular, and feminine. The function of pulchra is to modify the subject which is puella . Adjectives can be present in a sentence without a noun.
