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09:22 Sep 10, 2010 |
Latin to English translations [PRO] General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Joseph Brazauskas United States Local time: 03:33 | ||||||
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5 | very old man |
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very old man Explanation: Any adjective, or participle used adjectivally, may also be used substantively (i.e., as a noun), especially in poetry. Neither Latin nor Greek grammarians made any formal distinction between what we call substantives (or nouns) and adjectives. It is due to the haphazard nature of ordinary speech that some words were used habitually as what we call substantives or nouns, and others as what we call adjectives. The plural is much more common in this usage than the singular, but examples of the latter are also fairly abundant. |
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