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Rh the soldiers burnt Cæsar, and if you put ĕă (Fem.), it would mean they burnt the plunder.

Construction is of two kinds: Agreement and Government.

§ 119. A word is said to agree with the word or words to which its inflexions are conformed.

Agreement of one word with one other is called Simple Agreement.

Agreement of one word with more than one other word is called Composite Agreement.

§ 120. I. Adjectives, used as Attributes or Predicates, agree with their Nouns in Gender, Number, and Case: vĭr bŏnŭs est the-man is good.

Under other circumstances they agree with them in Gender, or in Gender and Number, according to the sense: optĭmĕ rēgum best of kings!

II. Nouns, when used as Attributes or Predicates to other Nouns, agree with them in Number and Case. Tullŭs rēx King Tullus, Tullŭs rēx ĕrĕt Tullus was king.

III. A Finite Verb agrees with its Subject in Number and Person: terră trĕmĭt, fūgērĕ fĕrae the-earth quakes, the-wild-beasts have-fled; tū pulsās, ĕgŏ vaāpŭlō you beat, I am-beaten.

§ 121. —That to which the Relative is referred is called its Antecedent.