2. He was hastening to your dwelling with your mother and sister.
In key there is: Ad aedificium vestrum cum matre et sorore tua properabat.
Why: tua
Why not pluralis: tuis
Mother et soror sunt due pesonae.
Exercise 237 part II
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Well...assuming you're talking to 1 person the form will be tuus, a , um. I don't know why that vestrum is there unless in appropriate context.
I'd say something like "Ad aedificium tuum cum matre sororeque tuis properabat/maturabat."
Indeed! "cum matre et sorore tua" would most likely mean with his (own) mother and your sister! Not a very nice pair!
I'd say something like "Ad aedificium tuum cum matre sororeque tuis properabat/maturabat."
Indeed! "cum matre et sorore tua" would most likely mean with his (own) mother and your sister! Not a very nice pair!
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Re: Exercise 237 part II
I think this should be considered an error in the answer key. While it is technically correct, I can't think of any situation where it would make sense. It should be vestrum or tua but not both.Radek wrote:2. He was hastening to your dwelling with your mother and sister.
In key there is: Ad aedificium vestrum cum matre et sorore tua properabat.
Why: tua
Why not pluralis: tuis
Mother et soror sunt due pesonae.
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I've corrected the key into aedificium tuum.
As to the tua/tuis, see A&G 286: with two or more nouns the adjective is regularly plural, but often agrees with the nearest.
So you can use both tua and tuis, but tuis is more common. I will put that as first option in the answer key.
Ingrid
PS: I also changed ex. 245. It will be some time before the new version of the answer key is posted though. I'm still interested in answers, especially for the latin-english exercises.
As to the tua/tuis, see A&G 286: with two or more nouns the adjective is regularly plural, but often agrees with the nearest.
So you can use both tua and tuis, but tuis is more common. I will put that as first option in the answer key.
Ingrid
PS: I also changed ex. 245. It will be some time before the new version of the answer key is posted though. I'm still interested in answers, especially for the latin-english exercises.
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Re: Exercise 237 part II
Indeed, but Latin has got his own habits. Following ERNOUT, Syntaxe latine, in the literary language, an attribute adjective never agrees with two substantives. For example : cum vitam tuam et studia considero "your life and your studies" (Cicero), Tota Asia Graeciaque "Whole Asia and whole Greece" (Cicero)...Radek wrote: Why: tua
Why not pluralis: tuis
Mother et soror sunt duae personae.