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——§ 152 SYNTAXanalysis!29SThe grammatical predicate is creantur, modified by the adjunct ad usumand that modified hyhotmnis.The dependent clause is quce in terra gignuntur, of whichThe logical subject is the quce, which, beiug a relative, connects the dependentwith the leading clause. (125.)The logical predicate is, in terra gignuntur.The grammatical subject is quce, the same as the logicaLThe grammatical predicate is gignuntur, modified by the adjunct interra.CONSTRUING,768.—In Latin and English, the general arrangement of a sentence isthe same, i. e. the sentence commonly begins with the subject and endswith the predicate. But the order of the words in each of these parts isusually so different in Latin, from what it is in English, that one of thefirst difficulties a beginner has to encounter with a Latin sentence, is toknow how " to take it in," or to arrange it in the order of the English.This is technically called construing or giving the order. To assist in this,some advantage may be found by carefully attending to the followingDIRECTIONS FOR BEGINNERS.769. Direction 1. As all the other parts of a sentence depend upon thetwo leading parts, namely, the subject or NOMINATIVE, and the predicatethe first thing to be done with every sentence, is to find outor VERB;these.In order to this,First. Look for the leading verb, which is always in the present, imperfect,perfect, pluperfect, or future, of the indicative, or in the imperativemood,* and usually at or near the end of the sentence.Second. Having found the verb, observe its number and person ; thiswill aid in finding its nominative, which is commonly a noun or pronounin the same number and person with the verb, commonly before it, andnear the beginning of the sentence, though not always so, 739, R. I. withexceptions.770. Direction 2. Having thus found the nominative and verb, andascertained their meaning, the sentence may be resolved from the Latininto the English order, as follows :1st. Take the Vocative, Exciting, Introductory, or connecting words, ifthere are any.2d. The NOMINATIVE.3d. Words limiting ov explaining it,.i. e. words agreeing with it, or governedby it, or by one another, where they are found, till you come to theverb.4th. The VERB.5th. Words limiting or explaining it, i. e. words which modify it, aregoverned by it, or depend upon it. 759, II.* All the other parts of the verb are generally used in subordinate clauses.So, also, is the pluperfect indicative. In oblique discourse, the leading verbis in the infinitive. 652.