Grammar - Week 5 Flashcards
Genitve singular of 1st declension nouns
All nouns whose genitive ends in -ae are in the 1st declension
Gender of 1st declension nouns
1st declension nouns are feminine unless they name a male like nauta.
Subject case
Nominative
Subject-verb agreement
The verb agrees with its subject in person and number.
Direct object case
Accusative
Position of verb
The verb usually stands last in the sentence.
Position of adverb
The adverb usually stands immediately before hte word it modifies.
Case for possessives and “of” phrases
Genitive
Genitive singular of 2nd declension nouns
-i
Gender of 2nd declension nouns
-us - masculine
-um - neuter
Unique characteristic of all neuter (Grammar 39)
Nominative and accusative are same, both nouns and adjectives in singular and plural
Indirect object case, or the “to/for” case
Dative
Two ways to indicate indirect objects in English
(1) “to” and (2) word order
(1) Christ gave God glory.
(2) Christ gave glory to God.
Prepositions take either of what two cases?
Ablative, accusative
Give the case for each preposition: propter, post, cum, in
propter: accusative, post: accusative, cum: ablative, in: ablative
