Usages of parens
Parentes pueros et puellas bonos mores docent.
Parents teach boys and girls good manners.
Cum aestas venisset, parentes pueros ad litus duxerunt, et pueri in arena diu luserunt.
When summer had come, the parents led the boys to the shore, and the boys played on the sand for a long time.
Cum parentes domum rediissent, mater de monte et valle fabulam narravit.
When the parents had returned home, mother told a story about a mountain and a valley.
Parentes dicunt bonos mores in domo et in schola servandos esse.
The parents say that good manners must be kept at home and at school.
Parentes dicunt disciplinam in schola et in domo utilem esse.
The parents say that discipline is useful in school and at home.
Parentes pacem in domo servare volunt.
The parents want to preserve peace in the house.
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