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"How many cities are in America?"
Translation:Quot urbes in America sunt?
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Would it be good if, as part of a lesson, we were given Latin sentences that some words/grammar/syntax were purposefully placed wrong that we would have to try figure out?
Would that also help, just a thought en-passant.
Why so many examples set in America? Why using America in a Latin course, where you expect to learn about ancient Rome?
That's only for very few words, for cities, towns, and small islands, never for a large area.
Not when you're using "in" I think. Not sure why you can't use the locative and drop the "in" though. It is consistent throughout the course for America, perhaps because it's not a Latin word?
As Quidam Cragius said, the locative case in an exception, and very rarely used, it's only for cities, towns (big or small), and small islands. Not for countries, continent, etc...
Yes, and the locative is not used, we use "in" + ablative for the other cases.
Yeah I imagined it would be "Quot urbes Americae sunt? based on how "Roma" was inflected to "Romae" in other examples.
Roma is a city, so we use the exception case for this: locative.
America is a country, so it takes in + ablative.
