Lesson 16: Grammar Review Flashcards
In English I praise is the ___ present, I am praising is the ___ present, and I do praise is the ___ present.
simple; progressive; emphatic
The future perfect tense endings are identical to ___ except for the ___.
the future tense of sum; 3rd person plural
Give the English forms of the to be verb.
am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been
In Latin grammar, imperfect means ___.
not finished
The imperfect tense sign is ___.
ba
Give the two grammar numbers.
singular, plural
The to be verb shows ___, not ___.
existence; action
Verb familes are called ___, and noun families are called ___.
conjugations; declensions
Give the five vowel letters and their long sounds in Latin.
a, e, i, o, u
/ah/ /ay/ /ee/ /oh/ ōō/
Give the names for the three forms of the English present tense.
simple present, progressive present, emphatic present
What is the in/by/with/from case?
ablative
Verb families are called ___.
conjugations
2nd-declension -us nouns are usually ___ in gender.
masculine
The perfect tense is built on the ___ stem.
perfect
How many conjugations are there? Name them.
four; first, second, third, fourth
How do you find the present stem?
Drop re from the infinitive
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 and English, hard c has the sound of
/k/
Nouns that name male or female persons or animals have ___ gender. Give three English examples.
natural; sister, brother, father, queen, king, uncle, etc.
What English helping verbs translate the Latin perfect tense?
have, has, did
The English infinitive is written with the particle ___ before the verb.
to
What is Sentence Pattern #2?
Subject + Verb + Direct Object
Give the names, from left to right, of the last three syllables of a Latin word.
antepenult; penult; ultima
The stem vowel of the 1st conjugation is __.
a
How many Latin tenses are there? Name them.
six; present, imperfect, future, perfect, pluperfect, future perfect
The three tenses that make up the present system are ___.
present, imperfect, future
Always in Latin and usually in English, c, g, and sc are soft before
e, i, ae, oe
Something that completes the action of the verb is a ___.
complement
Nouns that name non-living things have ___ gender.
grammatical
What is the name of the 2nd principal part?
infinitive
The imperfect tense is used to describe an ___, ___, ___ or ___ ___action.
ongoing, repeated, habitual; interrupted
Always in Latin and usually in English, c, g, and sc are hard before
a, o, u, consonants
1st-declension nouns are usually what gender?
feminine
The genitive singular of a 1st-declension noun always ends in ___.
-ae
What is the direct object case?
accusative
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.
What is the to/for case?
dative
The tenses that make up the present system are ___, ___, ___ and they are built on the ___.
perfect, pluperfect, future perfect; perfect stem
Three exceptions to the 1st-declension gender rule are ___.
agricola, nauta, poeta
The perfect tense describes what kind of action?
a one-time action completed in the past
In Latin grammar, perfect means ___.
finished
Give the three grammar persons.
first person, second person, third person
What English helping verb translates the pluperfect tense?
had
The future perfect tense describes what kind of action?
a future action that will be completed prior to another future action
The infinitive ending for all 1st conjugation verbs is ___.
-are
What English helping verbs translate the imperfect tense?
were, was
What English helping verb translates the Latin future tenses?
will
What is the of case?
genitive
Name the cases in order.
nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative
The two basic parts of a sentence are ___.
the subject and the predicate
The predicate tells ___
what the subject is or does
The genitive singular of a 2nd-declension noun always ends in ___.
-i
Latin does not have the English articles ___.
a, an, the
Give the four attributes of nouns.
declension, gender, number, and case
What is Sentence Pattern #1?
Subject + Verb
What is the subject case?
nominative
The pluperfect tense describes what kind of action?
a past action completed prior to another past action
Give the regular endings for the principal parts of 1st conjugation verbs.
-o -are -avi -atus
Soft c has the sound of ___ in English and ___ in Latin.
/s/; /ch/
Give the six attributes of a Latin verb.
conjugation, person, number, tense, voice, mood
The pluperfect tense is built on the ___ stem.
perfect
How do you find the perfect stem?
Drop -i from the 3rd principal part.
To what does the case of a noun refer?
the job (function) of a noun in a sentence
What English helping verbs translate the future perfect tense?
will have
Give three translations for amavi.
I loved, I have loved, I did love
In Latin, gn is pronounced like ___. Give two examples.
/ny/; pugno (I fight), magnus (large)
The future perfect tense is built on the ___ stem.
perfect
The accent is on the ___ unless the ___ is marked.
penult; antepenult
The subject tells
who or what the sentence is about
Give three translations for the Latin noun mensa.
table, a table, the table
The pluperfect tense endings are identical to ___.
the imperfect tense of sum
The present system is built on the ___.
present stem
What is the possessive case?
genitive
What is the indirect object case?
dative
The three genders are ___.
masculine, feminine, neuter
How many declensions are there? Name them.
five; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
What is the first complement in this text?
the complementary infinitive
Give two Latin words that have the long sound of the five vowels.
glória Jesu
