Questions & Answers about Puella in die festo pallium novum induit.
Because puella is in the nominative singular, the case normally used for the subject of a sentence.
- puella = girl
- nominative singular of a first-declension noun
So puella is the one doing the action of induit.
It is the thing being put on, so it is the direct object of induit.
In form, pallium is accusative singular here. A useful point is that neuter nouns often have the same form in the nominative and accusative singular, so pallium can look unchanged even though its job in the sentence is different.
So:
- puella = subject
- pallium = direct object
Because novum agrees with pallium.
Latin adjectives must match the nouns they describe in:
- gender
- number
- case
Here pallium is:
- neuter
- singular