6. «Rosam in comīs habet»
_(A) rose in (her) hair (she) has_

7. «Iūlia est puella pulchra»
_Julia is (a) girl pretty_

8. «Domina fīliam pulchram habet»
_(The) lady (a) daughter beautiful has_

_a._ The sentences above show that Latin does not express some words
which are necessary in English. First of all, _Latin has no article
«the» or «a»_; thus _«agricola»_ may mean _the farmer, a farmer_,
or simply _farmer_. Then, too, the personal pronouns, _I, you, he,
she_, etc., and the possessive pronouns, _my, your, his, her_, etc.,
are not expressed if the meaning of the sentence is clear without
them.


LESSON II

FIRST PRINCIPLES (_Continued_)

«23.» «Inflection.» Words may change their forms to indicate some change
in sense or use, as, _is, are_; _was, were; who, whose, whom; farmer,
farmer’s; woman, women_. This is called «inflection». The inflection of
a noun, adjective, or pronoun is called its «declension», that of a verb
its «conjugation».

«24.» «Number.» Latin, like English, has two numbers, singular and