Grammar - Week 29

Question 1

Perfect stem

Answer 1

The perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect tenses are built on the perfect stem.

Question 2

Principal Parts

Answer 2

The Principal parts are the four main forms on whose stems all the other forms of the verb are built.

Question 3

Third person direct reflexives

Answer 3

When a third person pronoun refers back to the subject of its own clause, a form of suī, rather than is, ea, id must be used.

Question 4

Tense sign for Future Tense

Answer 4

The tense sign bi is the sign of the future tense.

Question 5

Uniqueness of imperfect and future active and indicative

Answer 5

To find the endings of the imperfect and future indicative of the 4th conjugation, the 4th conjugation puts in -i before the endings of the 3rd

Question 6

The sign of the 3rd conjugation

Answer 6

All verbs whose present infinitive active end in -ere (with the first e short) belong to the 3rd conjugation.

Question 7

Formation of the Imperfect Tense

Answer 7

Verbs in the imperfect tense are formed on the present stem.

Question 8

Distinguishing feature of the 1st conjugation

Answer 8

The ending in the 1st conjugation begins with a.

Question 9

The sign of the 1st congutation

Answer 9

All verbs whose present infinitive active ends in -āre belong to the 1st conjugation.

Question 10

Three forms of the perfect indicative active in English

Answer 10

The perfect indicative active is expressed in English in three forms.:

1.) I praised. 2.) I did praise. 3.) I have praised.

Question 11

Three present tense forms in English

Answer 11

The three present tense forms in English are: 1. You praise. 2. You are praising. 3. You do praise.

Question 12

Finding and using the present stem

Answer 12

The present stem is found by dropping the ending from teh 2nd principal part and the present, imperfect, and future tenses are placed on the present stem.

Question 13

Personal endings of verbs

Answer 13

The personal endings of all Latin verbs are:

-ō or -m, -s, -t, -mus, -tis, -nt

Question 14

Direct reflexives

Answer 14

A pronoun that refers back to the subject of its own clause is a direct reflexive.

Question 15

The grammatical concept of person

Answer 15

Grammatical person indicates either 1st person (the person speaking: I, we), 2nd person (person spoken to: you), 3rd person (person spoken of: he, she, it, they)

Question 16

The sign of the 2nd conjugation

Answer 16

All verbs whose present infinitive active ends in -ēre belong to the 2nd conjugation.

Question 17

Passive voice

Answer 17

A verb is in the passive voice when the subject is the person or thing to which the action is done.

Question 18

Agreement of possessive adjectives

Answer 18

Possessive adjectives agree with the noun they modify in case, number, and gender.

Question 19

Uniqueness of future indiciative active of the 3rd conjugation

Answer 19

The future indicative active of the 3rd conjugation is different from the 1st and 2nd declensions. While the personal endings are the same, there is no tense sign, and the vowel of the ending changes.

Question 20

Active voice

Answer 20

A verb is in the active voice when teh subject is the person or thing that performs the action.

Question 21

Four principal parts of the 2nd conjugation (moneō)

Answer 21

The endings of the four principal parts of the 2nd conjugation are: -eō, -ēre, -uī, -itus.

Question 22

Tense sign for Imperfect Tense

Answer 22

The tense ba is the sign of the imperfect tense.

Question 23

Four principal parts of 1st conjugation (laudō)

Answer 23

The endings of the four principal parts of hte 1st conjugation are: -ō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus. (laudō, laudāre, laudāvī, laudātus)

Question 24

Ablative of Agent

Answer 24

When an action is done by a living agent, it is expressed in Latin by using the preposition ā/ab.

Question 25

Four principal parts of the 4th conjugation

Answer 25

The endings of the four principal parts of verbs in the 4th declesions are: -iō, -īre, -īvī, -ītus (audiō, audīre, audīvī, audītus).

Question 26

Three ways to ask questions in Latin

Answer 26

Interrogative adverbs, pronouns, and particles are three ways questions can be asked in Latin.

Question 27

Three characteristics of verbs

Answer 27

In both English and Latin, verbs change their form to express person, number, and tense. (There are actually more than three but we will study only three.)