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Grammar Questions 7 - 28 Flashcards

1
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In Latin, gn is pronounced like _______. Give two Latin examples.

A

/ny/

pugno (I fight), magnus (great, large)

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Give the names, from left to right, of the last three syllables of a Latin word.

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antepenult, penult, ultima

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The accent is on the ______ unless the _______ is marked.

A

penult

antepenult

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Verb families are called _________.

A

conjugations

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Give the six attributes of a Latin verb.

A

conjugation, person, number, tense, voice, mood

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How many conjugations are there? Name them.

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four. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th

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7
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Give the three grammar persons.

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1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person.

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The 1st person is the person _______
The 2nd person is the person _______
The 3rd person is the person _______

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The 1st person is the person ____speaking___
The 2nd person is the person ____spoken to___
The 3rd person is the person ___spoken about____

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9
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Give two grammar numbers

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singular, plural

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10
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How many Latin tenses are there?

Name them.

A

six

present, imperfect, future, pluperfect, future perfect

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The stem vowel of the 1st conjugation is

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a

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Give the names for the three forms of the English present tense.

A

simple present, progressive present, emphatic present

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In English, I love is the ________ present, I am loving is the __________, and I do love is the _________ present.

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In English, I love is the ____simple____ present, I am loving is the _____progressive_____, and I do love is the ____emphatic_____ present.

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Soft c has the sound of ______ in English and ______in Latin.

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Soft c has the sound of ___/s/___ in English and _/ch/_____in Latin.

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15
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In Latin grammar, “imperfect” means

A

not finished

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16
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The imperfect tense sign is

A

ba

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17
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the imperfect tense is used to describe an ______, _______, ________, or _________ _______ action

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the imperfect tense is used to describe an ___ongoing___, ___repeated____, ____habitual____, or _____interrupted____ ___past____ action

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18
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What English helping verbs translate the Latin imperfect tense?

A

was, were

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19
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the two basic parts of a sentence are __________________

A

the subject and the predicate

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20
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The subject tells___________________

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who or what the sentence is about

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The predicate tells_________________

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what the subject is or does

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What English Helping verb translates the Latin future tense?

A

will

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what is sentence pattern #1

A

Subject + Verb

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The three tenses that make up the present system are

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present, imperfect, future

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the present system is built on the
present stem
26
what are the principal parts? how many are there in Latin?
the forms that provide the stems needed to conjugate a verb in all its tenses. There are usually 4 principal parts
27
What is the name of the 2nd principal part
infinitive
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The infinitive ending for all 1st conjugation verbs is
-are
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how do you find the present stem?
drop "re" from the infinitive
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The English infinitive is written with the particle_____before the verb
to
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The "to be" verb shows______not______.
existence not action
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Give the English forms fo the "to be" verb
am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been
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Give the regular ending for the principal parts of 1st conjugation verbs
-o, -are, -avi, -atus
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What is the Sentence Pattern #2
Subject + Verb + Direct Object
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Something that completes the action of the verb is a _______
complement
36
What is the first complement in the this text?
the complementary infinitive
37
In Latin grammar, perfect means
finished
38
The perfect tense is built on the _____stem
perfect
39
How do you find the perfect stem?
Drop -i from the 3rd principal part
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Give three translations for amavi
I loved, I have loved, I did love
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What English helping verbs translate the Latin perfect tense?
have, has, did
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The pluperfect tense is built on the ______ stem.
perfect
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The pluperfect tense describes what king of action?
a past action completed prior to another past action
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What English helping verb translates the pluperfect tense?
had
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The pluperfect tense ending are identical to
the imperfect tense of sum
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The future perfect tense is built on the _____ stem
perfect
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The future perfect tense describes what kind of action?
a future action that will be completed prior to another future action.
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What English helping verbs translate the future perfect tense?
will have
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The future perfect tense endings are identical to___________except for________
the future tense of sum except for third person plural
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The tenses of the perfect system are ______________ and they are built on______________
perfect, pluperfect, future perfect and they are built on the perfect stem
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Verb families are called_______ | and noun families are called_________
Verb families are called conjugations | and noun families are called declensions
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How many declensions are there? Name them
five: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
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Give the four attributes of nouns/
declension, gender, number, case
54
The three genders are
masculine, feminine, neuter
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Nouns that name male or female persons have _____ gender. Give three English examples __________________
natural gender. | Examples: sister, brother, father, queen, king, uncle, ect.
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Nouns that name non-living things have ________ gender
grammatical
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To what does the case of a noun refer?
the job (function) of a noun in a sentence
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Name the cases in order
nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative
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What is the subject case?
nominative
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What is the direct object case?
accusative
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What is the indirect object case?
dative
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What is the possessive case?
genitive
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What is the in/by/with/from case?
ablative
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What is the to/for case?
genitive
65
What is the of case?
genitive
66
The genitive singular of a 1st declension noun always ends in
-ae
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1st declension nouns are usually what gender?
feminine
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Three exceptions to the 1st declension gender rule are
agricola, nauta, poeta
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Latin does not have the English articles
a, an, the
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Give three translations for the Latin noun mensa
table, a table, the table

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