From: Michael J Smith
Message: 19652
Date: 2003-03-09
> > [in Latin] With a compound sentence, would each part of the________________________________________________________________
> compound
> sentence be
> > translated by itself first like they were two different sentences,
> and
> > then joined?
> > In other words, would all the words before the comma go together
> and
> > all the words after the comma go together?
>
> It's not entirely clear what you mean, Michael. If I understand you
> correctly, then the answer is yes, in general. At your level,
> you're
> fairly safe taking all the words before the conjunction or
> subordinating
> word together, and all the words after it together, and the usual
> practice
> in texts at your level is for the editor to insert a comma before
> the
> conjunction. However, in real Latin, it is common practice for a
> word to be
> brought out of the second clause and placed before the conjunction.
> In
> poetry, it can even be several words. Commas are also rarer in more
> recent
> scholarly texts.
>
> You might have already met a simple example of this (depending on
> the course
> you are using) in sentences such as "Caesar, postquam...."
>
> Hope that helps - if not, get back to me. And good luck with the
> Latin!
>
> Peter
>
>
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