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Page history last edited by Laura Gibbs 16 years, 3 months ago

 

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Particle

 

There are a number of words in Latin which are best understood as "particles," which you can understand as a sort of verbal punctuation. It is often not necessary, or even impossible, to translate these particles into English, in the same way that it would be hard to translate a "comma" in English into the form of a word. A comma does work in a sentence, as you can see here, but it is not a word. Particles are similar: they do work in a sentence - indicating that a sentence is a question (as we use a question mark), giving a rhetorical intonation to a sentence (as we use an exclamation mark) - but they are not exactly words and cannot really be rendered as words in a sentence.

 

 

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