Grammar - Week 7

Question 1

Gender of 1st declension nouns

Answer 1

1st declension nouns are feminine unless they name a male like nauta.

Question 2

Predicate nominitave case (Grammar 474)

Answer 2

Nominative

Question 3

Direct object case

Answer 3

Accusative

Question 4

Appositive

Answer 4

A noun or a phrase that is “put beside” another noun to rename or explain it and set off by commas.

Question 5

Subject-verb agreement

Answer 5

The verb agrees with its subject in person and number.

Question 6

Genitive singular of 2nd declension nouns

Answer 6

-i

Question 7

Position of adverb

Answer 7

The adverb usually stands immediately before hte word it modifies.

Question 8

Case for possessives and “of” phrases

Answer 8

Genitive

Question 9

Unique characteristic of all neuter (Grammar 39)

Answer 9

Nominative and accusative are same, both nouns and adjectives in singular and plural

Question 10

Natural gender rule applies to ALL declensions (Grammar 46-47)

Answer 10

A noun naming a male person is masculine (dux); a noun naming a female person is feminine (māter)

Question 11

3rd declension neuter noun rule (Grammar 51)

Answer 11

Nouns ending in -l, -a, -n, -c, -e, -t (LANCET) are generally neuter.

Question 12

Give the case for each preposition: propter, post, cum, in

Answer 12

propter: accusative, post: accusative, cum: ablative, in: ablative

Question 13

3rd declension feminine noun rule (Grammar 50)

Answer 13

Nouns ending in -s, -o, -x (SOX) are generally feminine.

Question 14

Agreement rule for appositives (Grammar 473)

Answer 14

An appositive agrees with its noun in number and case.

Question 15

Position of forms of sum in a Latin sentence (Grammar 461)

Answer 15

Anywhere in sentence

Question 16

Genetive singular of 3rd declension nouns

Answer 16

-is

Question 17

Prepositions take either of what two cases?

Answer 17

Ablative, accusative

Question 18

Two ways to indicate indirect objects in English

Answer 18

(1) “to” and (2) word order
(1) Christ gave God glory.
(2) Christ gave glory to God.

Question 19

3rd declension masculine noun rule (Grammar 49)

Answer 19

Nouns ending in -er and -or (ERROR) are generally masculine.

Question 20

There is

There are

Answer 20

est (the expletive there)

sunt (the expletive there)

Question 21

Gender of 2nd declension nouns

Answer 21

-us - masculine

-um - neuter

Question 22

Indirect object case, or the “to/for” case

Answer 22

Dative

Question 23

Subject case

Answer 23

Nominative

Question 24

Position of verb

Answer 24

The verb usually stands last in the sentence.

Question 25

Genitve singular of 1st declension nouns

Answer 25

All nouns whose genitive ends in -ae are in the 1st declension