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 DRILL EXERCISES I I I

§6. {2ni Dedension in -us, Singular Number.

Hortus belliis est.

Tu, horte, non niagnus es.

riortum bellum inter ferias saepe visito.

Violae horti belli caeruleae sunt.

Putruus meus horto bello aquam dat.

In horto bello sunt rosae.

My^ uncle lives in a country-house near thc sea-shore. 1 love my uncle. I often visit my uncle's garden. I sometimes water the roses and violets of the garden. I often walk in the garden with Lydia. Sometimes I walk round the wall of the garden with my uncle. There is a stream not far from the garden. In the stream is an abundance of water. The garden gives delight to niy uncle.

§ 7. {Second Decknsion in -us, Plural Num/>er.)

Mergi in ora maritima nidificant.

Vos, mergi, in ora maritima nidificatis.

Mergos in ora maritima non capto.

Cibus mergorum in oceano est.

Mergis inter ferias operam do.

Corvi cum mergis non nidificant, non vohtant.

There-is a great number of ehns in my uncle's garden Many^ crows live in the elms. Sea-guUs do not make-nests in

^ Note that the adjectives in these early exerciscs (§§ iu) have ahvays the same endings as their Nouns.

jtand be/ore iheir Nouns (not afler them, like must Adjectives ; see Kule I of Order, p. loi).
 * The Latin Adjectives meaning 'many', 'some', 'all', ' fcw ', gencrally