Lesson 7: Grammar Review

Question 1

Give the five vowel letters and their long sounds in Latin.

Answer 1

a, e, i, o, u

/ah/ /ay/ /ee/ /oh/ ōō/

Question 2

Soft c has the sound of ___ in English and ___ in Latin.

Answer 2

/s/; /ch/

Question 3

The subject tells

Answer 3

who or what the sentence is about

Question 4

Give the two grammar numbers.

Answer 4

singular, plural

Question 5

The imperfect tense is used to describe an ___, ___, ___ or ___ ___action.

Answer 5

ongoing, repeated, habitual; interrupted

Question 6

What is the name of the 2nd principal part?

Answer 6

infinitive

Question 7

Give the names for the three forms of the English present tense.

Answer 7

simple present, progressive present, emphatic present

Question 8

How do you find the present stem?

Answer 8

Drop re from the infinitive

Question 9

Give the English forms of the to be verb.

Answer 9

am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been

Question 10

The English infinitive is written with the particle ___ before the verb.

Answer 10

to

Question 11

The present system is built on the ___.

Answer 11

present stem

Question 12

Give the names, from left to right, of the last three syllables of a Latin word.

Answer 12

antepenult; penult; ultima

Question 13

The imperfect tense sign is ___.

Answer 13

ba

Question 14

In English I praise is the ___ present, I am praising is the ___ present, and I do praise is the ___ present.

Answer 14

simple; progressive; emphatic

Question 15

How many Latin tenses are there? Name them.

Answer 15

six; present, imperfect, future, perfect, pluperfect, future perfect

Question 16

How many conjugations are there? Name them.

Answer 16

four; first, second, third, fourth

Question 17

The infinitive ending for all 1st conjugation verbs is ___.

Answer 17

-are

Question 18

Always in Latin and usually in English, c, g, and sc are hard before

Answer 18

a, o, u, consonants

Question 19

The accent is on the ___ unless the ___ is marked.

Answer 19

penult; antepenult

Question 20

The to be verb shows ___, not ___.

Answer 20

existence; action

Question 21

In Latin grammar, imperfect means ___.

Answer 21

not finished

Question 22

In Latin and English, hard c has the sound of

Answer 22

/k/

Question 23

The predicate tells ___

Answer 23

what the subject is or does

Question 24

Always in Latin and usually in English, c, g, and sc are soft before

Answer 24

e, i, ae, oe

Question 25

Give the three grammar persons.

Answer 25

first person, second person, third person

Question 26

The three tenses that make up the present system are ___.

Answer 26

present, imperfect, future

Question 27

What are principal parts? How many are there?

Answer 27

The forms that provide the stems needed to conjugate a verb in all its tenses. There are usually four principal parts.

Question 28

Give two Latin words that have the long sound of the five vowels.

Answer 28

glória Jesu

Question 29

The 1st person is the person ___.

The 2nd person is the person ___.

The 3rd person is the person ___.

Answer 29

speaking

spoken to

spoken about

Question 30

What English helping verbs translate the imperfect tense?

Answer 30

were, was

Question 31

Give the six attributes of a Latin verb.

Answer 31

conjugation, person, number, tense, voice, mood

Question 32

In Latin, gn is pronounced like ___. Give two examples.

Answer 32

/ny/; pugno (I fight), magnus (large)

Question 33

What is Sentence Pattern #1?

Answer 33

Subject + Verb

Question 34

Verb families are called ___.

Answer 34

conjugations

Question 35

The two basic parts of a sentence are ___.

Answer 35

the subject and the predicate

Question 36

The stem vowel of the 1st conjugation is __.

Answer 36

a

Question 37

What English helping verb translates the Latin future tenses?

Answer 37

will