The king and the royal fleet set out together.

If nouns of different genders include both living beings and things without life, a predicate adjective is sometimes masculine (or feminine), sometimes neuter, and sometimes agrees in gender with the nearest if that is plural.

Labor and delight are bound together by a certain natural alliance. Labor voluptās que societāte quādam inter sē nātūrālī sunt iūncta (id.5.4)

But generally, a predicate adjective will be masculine, if nouns of different genders mean living beings neuter, if things without life.Note- This is only when the copula agrees with the nearest subject ( § 317.

1.45)Ī noise of assent was made ( noise and murmur).

A predicate adjective may agree with the nearest noun, if the nouns form one connected idea.įactus est strepitus et admurmurātiō (Verr.

If any thing, if any man, if any time was fit

Sī rēs, sī vi, sī tempus ūllum dīgnum fuit (Mil. An attributive adjective agrees with the nearest noun.One adjective may belong in sense to two or more nouns of different genders. The dolphin is the swiftest of creatures.Ģ87. Note- A superlative in the predicate rarely takes the gender of a partitive genitive by which it is limited. Several colonies were planted ( led out) called Old Latins. a).Ĭolōniae aliquot dēductae, Prīscī Latīnī appellātī. A collective noun may take an adjective of a different gender and number agreeing with the gender and number of the individuals implied (synesis, § 280. Note- An adjective referring to two nouns connected by the preposition cum is occasionally plural (synesis, § 280. With two or more nouns the adjective is regularly plural, but often agrees with the nearest (especially when attributive).Ĭaesaris omnī et grātiā et opibus fruor. Note- All rules for the agreement of adjectives apply also to adjective pronouns and to participles.Ī. Adjectives, Adjective Pronouns, and Participles agree with their nouns in Gender, Number, and Case. Note- A predicate adjective may be used with sum or a copulative verb ( § 283) it may have the construction of a predicate accusative after a verb of naming, calling, or the like ( § 393, Note) or it may be used in apposition like a noun ( § 282. Three farms are handed over to Capito as his own.Ĭōnsilium cēpērunt plēnum sceleris. All other adjectives are called predicate adjectives.An attributive adjective simply qualifies its noun without the intervention of a verb or participle, expressed or implied.

Adjectives are either attributive or predicate.

What is a predicate adjective