e
ending -a:bus instead of -i:s in the _dative and ablative plural._
Note the _dative and ablative plural_ in the following declension:

dea bona (BASES de- bon-)

SINGULAR PLURAL
Nom. dea bona deae bonae
Gen. deae bonae dea:'rum bona:'rum
Dat. deae bonae dea:'bus boni:s
Acc. deam bonam dea:s bona:s
Abl. dea: bona: dea'bus boni:s

_a._ In the same way decline together /filia parva\.

_68._ Latin Word Order. The order of words in English and in Latin
sentences is not the same.

In English we arrange words in a fairly fixed order. Thus, in the
sentence _My daughter is getting dinner for the farmers_, we cannot
alter the order of the words without spoiling the sentence. We can,
however, throw emphasis on different words by speaking them with more
force. Try the effect of reading the sentence by putting special force
on _my, daughter, dinner, farmers_.

In Latin, where the office of the word in the sentence is shown by its
_ending_ (cf. Sec. 32.1), and not by its _position_, the order of words
is more free, and position is used to secure the same effect that in
English is secured by emphasis of voice. To a limited extent we can
alter the order of words in English, too, for the same purpose. Compare
the sentences

_I saw a game of football at Chicago last November_ (normal order)
_/Last November\ I saw a game of football at Chicago_
_At Chicago, last November, I saw a game of /football\_

1. In a Latin sentence the most emphatic place is the _first_; next in
importance is the _last_; the weakest point is the _middle_. Generally
the _subject_ is the most important word, and is placed _first_;
usually the _verb_ is the next in importance, and is placed _last_.
The other words of the sentence stand between these two in the order
of their importance. Hence the normal order of words--that is, where
no unusual emphasis is expressed--is as follows:

_subject_--_modifiers of the subject_--_indirect object_--
_direct object_--_adverb_--_verb_

Changes from the normal order are frequent, and are due to the desire
for throwing emphasis upon some word or phrase. _Notice the order of
the Latin words when you are translating, and imitate it when you are
turning English into Latin._

2. Possessive pronouns and modifying genitives normally stand after
their nouns. When placed before their nouns they are emphatic, as

filia