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[English words connected with the Latin by origin, but not intended as translations of them, are given in square brackets and Roman type.]

§1.

Compare the different forms of the same word (Singular Number) in the following sentences:


 * Villa bella est. There is a pretty country house, or The country-house is pretty.


 * Villam bellam amō. I love the pretty country-house.


 * Iānua villae bellae est aperta. The door of the pretty country-house is open.


 * In villā bellā habitō. I am staying in the pretty country house.

ego habitō, I am staying (where the word I has some stress); amo, I love (where the word I has no stress.)