Usor:Robert.Baruch/Composition Exercises 1

Apposition. When you can put two phrases together in the same case, they are in apposition. If you have two phrases that are not in the same case, but can be made to be in the same case, then do so.

Examples.

• My father, the king, approaches.
  • Pater meus rex advenit.
• He regards you as a friend. -> He regards you a friend.
  • Te amicum habet.
• We call this "progress".
  • Hoc "progressum" appellamus.
• When I was a young man, I danced well. -> I, a young man, danced well.
  • Adulescens bene saltavi.
• The city of Baltimore is quite boring. -> The city, Baltimore, is hardly of interest to anyone.
  • Baltimora urbs cuiquam vix interest.

Translate. Leave your answers in Discussion, but try to answer them yourself!

1. The next street, Narrow Way, is hardly narrow.
2. My neighbor, the idiot, set fire to his curtains today.
3. Charles and Frederick, the brothers of Gregory Junior, do not live in the city of San Francisco.
4. My car, a dented wreck, nevertheless still runs.
5. Your aunt Chlamydia and her old father Sarcastus drove my car to Minneapolis and St. Paul, the twin cities.
6. He spoke to your mother Amoeba about his cat Meowlestus, a four-pawed monster.
7. He gave Meowlestus a ball, and she acted [like] a fool.
8. The ball rolled under the couch, a favorite item for her to scratch upon.
9. The cat, quiet and still, waited for Sarcastus to retrieve the ball, her most favorite toy.
10. But Chlamydia, a silly woman, distracted the cat.
11. I often think about San Francisco, a large city near Silicon Valley.
12. As a young man I wanted to live there.
13. But as a wiser man, I know that San Francisco, a city whose food is wonderful, is better to be visited than inhabited.
14. However, my friend Androgynus, brother of Placebo and owner of the cat Phlebotomes, lives there.
15. He says it's great. I think him a moron.

Done? Go to exercise 2.