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nites, quis-forms and quid-forms are mostly used as substantives, qui-forms and quod-forms as adjectives. _b._ The indefinites /quis\ and /qui\ never stand first in a clause, and are rare excepting after /si\, /nisi\, /ne:\, /num\ (as, si quis, _if any one_; si quid, _if anything_; nisi quis, _unless some one_). Generally /aliquis\ and /aliqui\ are used instead. _c._ The forms /qua\ and /aliqua\ are both feminine nominative singular and neuter nominative plural of the indefinite adjectives /qui\ and /aliqui\ respectively. How do these differ from the corresponding forms of the relative /qui\? _d._ Observe that /qui:dam\ (qui: + -dam) is declined like /qui:\, except that in the accusative singular and genitive plural /m\ of /qui:\ becomes /n\ (cf. Sec. 287.a): /quendam\, /quandam\, /quorundam\, /quarundam\; also that the neuter has /quiddam\ (substantive) and /quoddam\ (adjective) in the nominative and accusative singular. /Qui:dam\ is the least indefinite of the indefinite pronouns, and implies that you could name the person or thing referred to if you cared to do so. _e._ /Quisquam\ and /quisque\ (substantive) are declined like /quis\. _f._ /Quisquam\, _any one_ (quicquam or quidquam, _anything_), is always used substantively and chiefly in negative sentences. The corresponding adjective _any_ is /u:llus, -a, -um\ (Sec. 108). _298._ EXERCISES First learn the special vocabulary, p. 295. I. 1. Aliquis de ponte in flumen decidit sed sine ullo periculo servatus est. 2. Est vero in vita cuiusque hominis aliqua bona fortuna. 3. Ne militum quidem[1] quisquam in castris mansit. 4. Si quem meae domi vides, iube eum discedere. 5. Si quis pontem tenet, ne tantus quidem exercitus capere urbem potest. 6. Urbs non satis munita erat et meridie rex quidam paene copias suas trans pontem traduxerat. 7. Denique miles quidam armatus in fluctus desiluit et incolumis ad alteram ripam oculos vertit. 8. Quisque illi forti militi aliquid dare debet. 9. Tanta vero virtus Romanus semper placuit. 10. Olim Corinthus erat urbs satis magna et paene par Romae ipsi; nunc vero moenia deciderunt et pauca vestigia urbis illius reperiri possunt. 11. Quisque libertatem amat, et aliquibus vero nomen regis est invisum. II. 1. If you see a certain Cornelius at Corinth, send him to me. 2. Almost all the soldiers who fell down into the waves were unha
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