Lesson 1 Grammar Review

Question 1

Three exceptions to the 1st-declension gender rule are ___.

Answer 1

agricola, nauta, poeta

Question 2

What is the subject case?

Answer 2

nominative

Question 3

Give the four attributes of nouns.

Answer 3

declension, gender, number, and case

Question 4

Verb familes are called ___, and noun families are called ___.

Answer 4

conjugations; declensions

Question 5

The genitive singular of a 1st-declension noun always ends in ___.

Answer 5

-ae

Question 6

Name the cases in order.

Answer 6

nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative

Question 7

Nouns that name male or female persons or animals have ___ gender. Give three English examples.

Answer 7

natural; sister, brother, father, queen, king, uncle, etc.

Question 8

Latin does not have the English articles ___.

Answer 8

a, an, the

Question 9

Name the two subgroups of the 2nd declension, and give their gender.

Answer 9

1. -us nouns with masculine gender
2. -um nouns with neuter gender

Question 10

Give two common indeclinable nouns.

Answer 10

satis nihil

Question 11

In Latin the possessive noun is is in the ___ case.

Answer 11

genitive

Question 12

What is Sentence Pattern #5

Answer 12

subject + verb + I.O. + D.O.

Question 13

What are the two ways to show an indirect object in English?

Answer 13

the preposition to; word order - the indirect object precedes the direct object

Question 14

The genitive singular of a 2nd-declension noun always ends in ___.

Answer 14

-i

Question 15

How many declensions are there? Name them.

Answer 15

five; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th

Question 16

What is the neuter rule?

Answer 16

nominative and accusative endings are the same

nominative and accusative plural ending is -a

Question 17

2nd-declension -um nouns are always ___ in gender.

Answer 17

neuter

Question 18

What is the to/for case?

Answer 18

dative

Question 19

The declension a noun belongs to is determend by the ___ ending.

Answer 19

genitive singular

Question 20

What kind of verbs have indirect objects?

Give Latin examples.

Answer 20

giving and telling

do, demonstro, núntio, narro

Question 21

Name the four verb complements you have learned.

Answer 21

predicate nominative, predicate adjective, direct object, indirect object

Question 22

What is the in/by/with/from case?

Answer 22

ablative

Question 23

Give the dative and ablative plural of fília and dea.

Answer 23

filiabus, deabus

Question 24

What is the possessive case?

Answer 24

genitive

Question 25

What is the indirect object case?

Answer 25

dative

Question 26

What is the of case?

Answer 26

genitive

Question 27

Verbs have ___ endings and nouns have ___ endings.

Answer 27

personal, tense; case

Question 28

The natural gender rule ___ all other gender rules.

Answer 28

trumps

Question 29

2nd-declension -us nouns are usually ___ in gender.

Answer 29

masculine

Question 30

To what does the case of a noun refer?

Answer 30

the job (function) of a noun in a sentence

Question 31

Nouns that name non-living things have ___ gender.

Answer 31

grammatical

Question 32

2nd declension -er nouns either ___ or ___ the e in the stem.

Answer 32

drop; retain

Question 33

What are the two ways to show possession in English?

Answer 33

preposition of and ’s

Question 34

Some nouns have only plural forms. An example is ___.

Answer 34

liberi liberorum

Question 35

In Latin the indirect object is in the ___ case.

Answer 35

dative

Question 36

Give the three nominative singular endings for 2nd-declension masculine nouns.

Answer 36

-us, -er, -ir

Question 37

Four confusing words with the root of liber are ___.

Answer 37

liberi liberorum (children)

liber libri (book)

liber libera liberum (free)

libero (1) (to set free)

Question 38

Give three translations for the Latin noun mensa.

Answer 38

table, a table, the table

Question 39

1st-declension nouns are usually what gender?

Answer 39

feminine

Question 40

The three genders are ___.

Answer 40

masculine, feminine, neuter

Question 41

What is the direct object case?

Answer 41

accusative

Question 42

Give an example of Sentence Pattern #5 in Latin.

Answer 42

Maria Marco rosam dedit.