The document is an analysis of appositives in a paragraph about the town of Herculaneum in Italy. It lists five appositives that rename nouns in the paragraph, identifies the noun each appositive renames, and indicates the Latin case for each noun-appositive pair. The five pairs are: town and Italian town in the nominative case, volcano and Vesuvius in the nominative case, hero and Hercules in the nominative case, people and inhabitants in the accusative case, and statues and signs in the nominative case.
The document is an analysis of appositives in a paragraph about the town of Herculaneum in Italy. It lists five appositives that rename nouns in the paragraph, identifies the noun each appositive renames, and indicates the Latin case for each noun-appositive pair. The five pairs are: town and Italian town in the nominative case, volcano and Vesuvius in the nominative case, hero and Hercules in the nominative case, people and inhabitants in the accusative case, and statues and signs in the nominative case.
The document is an analysis of appositives in a paragraph about the town of Herculaneum in Italy. It lists five appositives that rename nouns in the paragraph, identifies the noun each appositive renames, and indicates the Latin case for each noun-appositive pair. The five pairs are: town and Italian town in the nominative case, volcano and Vesuvius in the nominative case, hero and Hercules in the nominative case, people and inhabitants in the accusative case, and statues and signs in the nominative case.
Remember that an appositive is set off by commas, renames the preceding noun, and, in Latin, it will be in the same case as the preceding noun! So your job is to find the appositive then determine the case of the preceding noun. Herculaneum, an Italian town, was buried by an eruption of the volcano, Vesuvius. This town took its name from Hercules, a great hero. To the inhabitants of the city, an affluent people, the god's name gave particular pride. Among the ruins, archaeologists have found many statues of Hercules, signs of the public's devotion to its namesake.
Noun Renamed Appositive Case for Both
1. Town nominative nominative 2. Volcano nominative nominative 3. Hero nominative nominative 4. People accusative accusative 5. Statues nominative nominative