Grammar - Week 7 Flashcards
Gender of 1st declension nouns
1st declension nouns are feminine unless they name a male like nauta.
Predicate nominitave case (Grammar 474)
Nominative
Direct object case
Accusative
Appositive
A noun or a phrase that is “put beside” another noun to rename or explain it and set off by commas.
Subject-verb agreement
The verb agrees with its subject in person and number.
Genitive singular of 2nd declension nouns
-i
Position of adverb
The adverb usually stands immediately before hte word it modifies.
Case for possessives and “of” phrases
Genitive
Unique characteristic of all neuter (Grammar 39)
Nominative and accusative are same, both nouns and adjectives in singular and plural
Natural gender rule applies to ALL declensions (Grammar 46-47)
A noun naming a male person is masculine (dux); a noun naming a female person is feminine (māter)
3rd declension neuter noun rule (Grammar 51)
Nouns ending in -l, -a, -n, -c, -e, -t (LANCET) are generally neuter.
Give the case for each preposition: propter, post, cum, in
propter: accusative, post: accusative, cum: ablative, in: ablative
3rd declension feminine noun rule (Grammar 50)
Nouns ending in -s, -o, -x (SOX) are generally feminine.
Agreement rule for appositives (Grammar 473)
An appositive agrees with its noun in number and case.
Position of forms of sum in a Latin sentence (Grammar 461)
Anywhere in sentence