Latin A-Level
Case government by prepositions
What Case government by prepositions means in Latin A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Case government by prepositions
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Prepositions are indeclinable words that signal the grammatical case of a following noun, and each must be learned together with its case.
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- 5d. Latin Accidence and Syntax - Accidence (OCR A-Level)
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