Il8 DRILL EXERCISES
Libri magistrorum nostrorum docti sunt.
Magistris nostris copia librorum est.
Cum magistris nostris ludis saepe operam damus.
I often see our schoolmaster during the holidays. Our school- masler has^ many books about (§ lo) Britain. We boys like to see^ the books of our schoohnaster. The schoolmaster's books are filled^ with Roman and Greek coins. I am a schoolfelluw of Mark and Alexander in a famous and ancient schook Not only the boys but also the masters of our school pay atteniion to games.
§ i6. {Agreement of Adjectives.)
villa Romana oppidum Romanura
fagus Britamiica
nummus Romanus vir doctus hber Latinus nauta Romanus
RuLE. — Make the Adjective agree with its Noun in Gender^ as well as in Number and Case.
This rule appHes not only to examples hke those above, in which the Adjective is called an Attribute of the Noun, but also to examples Hke the foUowing, in which the Adjective is uscd with the Verb * to be ' and is called a Predicate Adjective : nummus est Romanus. villa est Romana. vir est doctus. fagus est Britannica.
oppidum est Romanum.
- Say to our schoohnaster there-are ; see Preparations §9, end. Similarly
in all future scntences where ihe verb ' to have ' occurs in this book.
^ llere and in all future sentences whcre ' like to ' occurs say 'gladly
' Use creber, and rcmember the riile for the Case and Number of Adjectives used wilh the vcrb ' to be ' given on g 13 (' he is free').
- For Rules of Gender see Prcparations § 15 (p. 75). — Note that the ending
of ihe Adjective is not always the same as that of the Noun (sis it was in the cxercises on §§ i-il).
