"exit" means "he/she/it goes out" while English relies on prepositions to encode the same information. Latin exhibits verb-framing, in which the path of motion is encoded into the verb e.g. The language can also omit pronouns in certain situations, meaning that grammatical gender, person, and number alone can generally identify the agent pronouns are most often reserved for situations where meaning is not entirely clear. Latin uses prepositions, and usually places adjectives after nouns. Latin does not have articles and so does not generally differentiate between, for example, a girl and the girl the same syntactic unit represents both: puella amat means both a girl loves and the girl loves. In Latin, there are five declensions of nouns and four conjugations of verbs.
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Word order, however, generally follows the Subject Object Verb paradigm, although variations on this are especially common in poetry and express subtle nuances in prose. In each word the suffix: -a, -am and -uit, and not the position in the sentence, marks the word's grammatical function. For example, femina togam texuit, "the woman wove a toga," which is the preferred word order, could be expressed and interpreted as texuit togam femina or togam texuit femina. This means the Latin grammar allows for a large degree of flexibility when choosing word order. The grammar of Latin, like that of other ancient Indo-European languages, is highly inflected.
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Note the opening door in the background and the unshod feet of the first pupil.
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The scene is an allegory of grammar and by implication of all education. Priscian, or the Grammar, marble cameo panel dated 1437-1439 from the bell tower of Florence, Italy, by Luca della Robbia.