§271. Subject and Predicate
The Subject of a sentence is usually a Noun or Pronoun, or some word or group of words used as a Noun:—
- equitēs ad Caesarem vēnērunt, the cavalry came to Cæsar.
- hūmānum est errāre, to err is human.
- quaeritur num mors malum sit. the question is whether death is an evil.
a. But in Latin the subject is often implied in the termination of the verb:—
| sedē -mus, we sit. | curri -tis, you run. | inqui-t, says he. |
J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.