§ 71. All words placed under the same construction agree together in all the accidents which they possess in common.§ 72. "Apposition" occurs as in English.§ 73. Adjectives agree with their nouns in gender, number, and case.§ 74. The noun is often understood, especially if neut., ("things.")§ 75. Sometimes a relative is "attracted" into the case of the omitted antecedent.§ 76. A verb agrees with its subject nominative in number and person.§ 77. The case of the subject of the Infin. depends upon other relations.§ 78. Neuters plur. generally have a sing. verb.

Government.

§ 79. Any word may govern another (or others) which in sense is dependent upon it in the case appropriate for expressing such relation either with or without a preposition.

§ 80. GENITIVE, denoting origin, answering to Whence? and expressed by from.§ 81. "Local," involving external relations of space, either in a literal or a figurative sense. This includes actual motion from an object, generally with a preposition, (ἀπό ἐκ παρά;) separation from it, usually with verbs compounded with a preposition; and commencement.§ 82. "Causal," denoting a more internal relation, as if the outgoing of some agency or property, as follows:--§ 83. Active, either direct, inferential, or metaphysical. This includes relations of source, (e.g., derivation, [commonly with ἐκ, sometimes ἀπό, direct authorship with ὐπό,] possession, property, [often with an Infin.]) partitive use, (e.g., a class, material, partial relations,) and the Gen. of time, (in the course of which,) especially the "Gen. absolute," with a Participle, as affording occasion.§ 84. Passive, that is, indirect, the act being for the sake of the Gen. This includes verbs implying a mental operation, adjectives, and other words denoting skill, and the Gen. of crime or purpose, (the last mostly an Infin. with the article.)§ 85. Mutual, e.g., comparison and price or penalty.§ 86. The "attributive Gen." is a comprehensive relation, arising under several of the above heads, between two nouns designating different objects, which may be thus expressed: When two nouns are connected with each other, that one which completes the idea of the other and defines it more fully is put in the Gen.§ 87. Dative, denoting position, answering to Where? and expressed by at.§ 88. "Local," involving the more palpable relations of position. This includes the place, (at, by, near, in the midst of; generally with ἐν, ἐπί, παρά, etc.,) association, accompaniment, (frequently with σύν,) and the time (as a date) or circumstances of a transaction.§ 89. "Causal," denoting the object upon which the act or state appears, thus conceived as sharing in producing it, as follows:--§ 90. Personal, either actually or so imagined. This includes words expressing a correlative idea, as community, (in varied relations,) likeness, possession, agency, reference, etc.§ 91. Instrumental, as the mediate cause, e.g., the ground or reason, the means, the instrument, manner, and the measure of excess or deficiency.§ 92. In comprehensive phrase the "attributive Dat." expresses many indirect relations of an object to or for which an act is performed or a condition sustained.§ 93. Accusative, denoting direction, answering to Whither? and expressed by toward.§ 94. "Local" involving the boundary, place, or object of motion, especially with εἰς.§ 95. "Causal," involving an influence, change, or result, as impressed upon the object, as follows:--§ 96. The effect, either the thing effected, an attribute of the effect, or the effect intended.§ 97. The object acted upon, e.g., with directly transitive verbs, those expressing a good or bad influence, patience, swearing, sometimes a mental affection, etc.; also the space or way after a verb of motion; the time, (throughout which,) measure, and weight; and finally ("Attributive Accusative") with any verb or adj. (sometimes other words) to define its application more closely, especially if of kindred signification.

Order of Words in a Sentence.

§ 98. This is usually not, as in English, that of grammatical dependence, but rather the order of thought; important or emphatic words come first, after the connecting particles; prepositions and the article precede their nouns; and qualifying terms are grouped in a harmonious balance around the principal ones.