Predicate Nominatives and Adjectives

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2. Nouns and their uses • In English nouns have essentially three uses: • The subject • The object • The possessive • The Romans were a little more specific about noun usage and had different names for those uses

3. Roman noun uses • The SUBJECT is called the NOMINATIVE • The Possessive is called the GENITIVE • The Indirect Object is called the DATIVE • The Direct Object is called the ACCUSATIVE • The Obj. of a Preposition is the ABLATIVE • Notice how the Romans broke the object use into three different cases

4. That’s a LOT of information • Don’t worry: all we are worried about right now is the SUBJECT case, which the Romans called the NOMINATIVE case.

5. What is a NOMINATIVE? • The nominative is the SUBJECT of a sentence. • Lester is a friend of mine • LESTER is the subject of the sentence. In Latin the subject is called the NOMINATIVE

6. How do I find the nominative? • In English the nominative is normally at the beginning of the sentence: • Lester is eating a cookie • crustulamLester consumat • In Latin word order is less important, so the SUBJECT can be almost ANYWHERE

7. PN Predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives rename or describe the SUBJECT. Lester is a friend of mine. Example: “friend” renames the subject, “Lester” “Friend” is a predicate nominative