Chapter 1 Grammar Flashcards
What are relative pronouns and give an example?
Qui = who, words linking two facts about a person of thing.
When you see a relative pronoun…
It is the start of a new phrase, so you can create a line before it.
Superlatives are…
Big, Bigger, Biggest.
An adjective ending in -er e.g. Bigger would end with…
ior
An adjective ending in -est e.g. Biggest would end with…
issimus
What are time clauses…
Clauses indicating when something happens.
When there is a new time clause in the sentence…
Beginning of new phrase.
What are connecting relatives?
Relative pronoun starts the sentence but has no English term.
Example of connecting relatives…
Quos, Quae = them, these things.
What are the two meanings of quod?
Relative = because
connecting relative = this.
What is the purpose of a subjunctive…
Potential
Deliberative Questions
Purpose Clauses
Wishes for Future
Jussive
Relative Clauses
Indirect Questions
How to spot a present subjunctive…
Vowel change
How to spot an imperfect subjunctive…
The infinitive is in the imperfect subjunctive
How to spot a perfect subjunctive…
Look for R or Sim
How to spot a plu-perfect subjunctive…
V and Isse or Esse
What are the two types of purpose clauses?
Primary
Historic
What is a primary purpose clause made of?
Present + Future perfect (have)
What is a historic purpose clause made of?
Imperfect, perfect, pluperfect.
How to translate a potential subjunctive?
‘we might go” or “they might escape”
How to translate a primary purpose clause?
X will do something to do this.
How to translate a historic purpose clause?
X has done something to do this.
How to translate a Deliberative Question subjunctive?
What am I to do? Where should I go?
How to translate Wishes for Future subjunctive?
If only … I wish… Please be…
How are direct commands formed and how do you translate them?
Ordering word + infinitve
