Usages of alius
Magistra existimat unumquemque modum utilem esse, quoniam quisque discipulus alio modo discit.
The teacher thinks that each method is useful, since each student learns in a different way.
Magistra dicit hanc sententiam alio modo explicandam esse.
The teacher says that this sentence must be explained in a different way.
Una discipula rogat utrum omnis magistratus suffragio fiat an quidam alio modo fiant.
One female student asks whether every magistrate comes to office by vote or whether some are made in another way.
Post lectionem puella domi matri narrat se hodie didicisse cur quaedam praepositiones accusativum, aliae ablativum, quaedam utrumque accipiant, et cur idem verbum in indicativo aut in coniunctivo alium sensum habeat.
After the lesson the girl tells her mother at home that today she learned why some prepositions take the accusative, others the ablative, some both, and why the same verb has a different sense in the indicative or in the subjunctive.
Alia terminatio in eodem verbo interdum personam mutat, non sensum totius sententiae.
A different ending in the same verb sometimes changes the person, not the meaning of the whole sentence.
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