| Agreement describes the way in which morphologically, two
words in a syntactic relationship will run parallel to one another.
Agreement is one of the most important elements useful for resolving
ambiguity in Latin.
Here are the different forms of morphological agreement in Latin:
 | Adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in case, number
and gender (bonus filius (nominative singular), boni filii (genitive
singular or nominative plural), bonorum canum (genitive plural), omni
puellae (dative singular; the two forms individually have many
morphological possibilities (omni could be dative or ablative
singular, puellae could be nominative plural, genitive singular or
dative singular), but they only match in the dative singular). |
| Subjects agree with the verbs in their clause in number
only. ("puella currat" and "puellae
currant"; if the subject is plural, the verb must be as
well). Subjects are in the nominative case, so the subject (if a
noun) will always be in the nominative. Verbs do not have gender
or case, but they do have number (which nouns also have). |
| Pronouns agree in gender and number (not case since they appear in
different clauses). Eius could refer to puella, puer, consilium,
or puellae in the singular, but since eius is singular, it could not
refer to puellae in the plural. Eum could refer to puer, puero
or cane (if the dog is masculine), but it could not refer to a neuter
or feminine thing. It also could not refer to a plural or any
gender. |
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