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——;§ 100, 101 SYNTAX.—NOMINATIVE CASE. 217are sometimes used in comparative expressions ; as, Honos tali populiRomani voluntdte.. paucis est delcdus ac mild. Cic.Note 2.— When quot, quantus, qualis are used as interrogates, theyhave no corresponding antecedent term.301.Exc. 4. Instead of the ordinary construction, therelative adjective, with its noun, is sometimes attracted intothe case of the relative pronoun understood, as in the followingsentence : Si hominibus bondrum rerum tanta cura esset,quanto studio petunt, Sall., Jug.; instead of quantum eststudium quo aliena petunt:—unless this be a case of anacoluthon,the latter part of the sentence being expressed as ifthe former, had been, Si homines bonas res peterent, quantostudio, &c, i. e.5tanto studio quanto, &e. 300, a.§ 100. CONSTRUCTION OF THE NOMINATIVE CASE.302. The nominative case is used,1. To express the subject of a proposition;2. In apposition with another substantive in the nominative(§ 97), or predicated of it (§ 103)3. In exclamations ; as, O vir for tis atque amicus!303.§ 101. THE VERB AND ITS NOMINATIVE.Rule IV. A Verb agrees with its nominativein number and person ;as,Ego lego, I read. Nos legimus, "We read.Tu scrlbis, Thou writest. Vos scribitis, Ye write.llle loquitur, He speaks. llli loquuntur, They speak.304.—EXPLANATION.—The subject of a finite verb, being a noun, apronoun, an adjective used as a noun, or a gerund, is put in the nominativecase. The subject may also be an infinitive mood or part of a sentence. To allof these the rule applies, and requires that the verb be in the same numberand person as the subject, or nominative. For person, see 35, and 118-1, 2.OBSERVATIONS.o0o. Obs. 1. The nominatives Igo, nos, of the first person; and tu tvos, of the second, are generallv omitted being obvious from the tern10