Lesson 10: Grammar Review Flashcards
The pluperfect tense describes what kind of action?
a past action completed prior to another past action
Give the three grammar persons.
first person, second person, third person
The 1st person is the person ___.
The 2nd person is the person ___.
The 3rd person is the person ___.
speaking
spoken to
spoken about
In Latin, gn is pronounced like ___. Give two examples.
/ny/; pugno (I fight), magnus (large)
The accent is on the ___ unless the ___ is marked.
penult; antepenult
What English helping verbs translate the imperfect tense?
were, was
Soft c has the sound of ___ in English and ___ in Latin.
/s/; /ch/
The two basic parts of a sentence are ___.
the subject and the predicate
What English helping verb translates the pluperfect tense?
had
How many Latin tenses are there? Name them.
six; present, imperfect, future, perfect, pluperfect, future perfect
In Latin and English, hard c has the sound of
/k/
The stem vowel of the 1st conjugation is __.
a
What English helping verbs translate the Latin perfect tense?
have, has, did
In English I praise is the ___ present, I am praising is the ___ present, and I do praise is the ___ present.
simple; progressive; emphatic
Give the names, from left to right, of the last three syllables of a Latin word.
antepenult; penult; ultima
The infinitive ending for all 1st conjugation verbs is ___.
-are
Give the six attributes of a Latin verb.
conjugation, person, number, tense, voice, mood
Give two Latin words that have the long sound of the five vowels.
glória Jesu
What is Sentence Pattern #2?
Subject + Verb + Direct Object
The perfect tense is built on the ___ stem.
perfect
Give the five vowel letters and their long sounds in Latin.
a, e, i, o, u
/ah/ /ay/ /ee/ /oh/ ōō/
The present system is built on the ___.
present stem
The English infinitive is written with the particle ___ before the verb.
to
What are principal parts? How many are there?
The forms that provide the stems needed to conjugate a verb in all its tenses. There are usually four principal parts.
The imperfect tense is used to describe an ___, ___, ___ or ___ ___action.
ongoing, repeated, habitual; interrupted
How many conjugations are there? Name them.
four; first, second, third, fourth
Always in Latin and usually in English, c, g, and sc are hard before
a, o, u, consonants
How do you find the present stem?
Drop re from the infinitive
How do you find the perfect stem?
Drop -i from the 3rd principal part.
What is the name of the 2nd principal part?
infinitive
In Latin grammar, perfect means ___.
finished
Give the names for the three forms of the English present tense.
simple present, progressive present, emphatic present
The subject tells
who or what the sentence is about
Something that completes the action of the verb is a ___.
complement
What English helping verb translates the Latin future tenses?
will
In Latin grammar, imperfect means ___.
not finished
Verb families are called ___.
conjugations
Give the regular endings for the principal parts of 1st conjugation verbs.
-o -are -avi -atus
Give the two grammar numbers.
singular, plural
The pluperfect tense is built on the ___ stem.
perfect
The pluperfect tense endings are identical to ___.
the imperfect tense of sum
The three tenses that make up the present system are ___.
present, imperfect, future
The to be verb shows ___, not ___.
existence; action
What is the first complement in this text?
the complementary infinitive
The imperfect tense sign is ___.
ba
The perfect tense describes what kind of action?
a one-time action completed in the past
Give the English forms of the to be verb.
am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been
What is Sentence Pattern #1?
Subject + Verb
Give three translations for amavi.
I loved, I have loved, I did love
The predicate tells ___
what the subject is or does
Always in Latin and usually in English, c, g, and sc are soft before
e, i, ae, oe
