Help with concepts?
Sorry to post twice in a row guys, but I just wanted to make sure I understood this concept in Latin as well and forgot about it till two seconds ago :P
When, exactly do you use participles and the ablative absolute? :\
Is the participles such as, for example, imp. active participles, just when you want a verb to act as an adjective (Ex: The loving man, Vir amantes)? Then when and why do you use the ablative absolute? What is it's purpose? I can recognize a sentence with it in it, and know it's a participle that's not part of the main clause and both the noun head and the participle/verb have to be in ablative, but I really don't get why it's there. :\ I'll give an example that'll hopefully clarify this as well if you don't get what I'm talking about with the different ways people learn Latin. :\
EX: Caesar imperium tenete, eventum timeo.
Help?
When, exactly do you use participles and the ablative absolute? :\
Is the participles such as, for example, imp. active participles, just when you want a verb to act as an adjective (Ex: The loving man, Vir amantes)? Then when and why do you use the ablative absolute? What is it's purpose? I can recognize a sentence with it in it, and know it's a participle that's not part of the main clause and both the noun head and the participle/verb have to be in ablative, but I really don't get why it's there. :\ I'll give an example that'll hopefully clarify this as well if you don't get what I'm talking about with the different ways people learn Latin. :\
EX: Caesar imperium tenete, eventum timeo.
Help?