Lesson 7: Grammar Review Flashcards
Give the five vowel letters and their long sounds in Latin.
a, e, i, o, u
/ah/ /ay/ /ee/ /oh/ ōō/
Soft c has the sound of ___ in English and ___ in Latin.
/s/; /ch/
The subject tells
who or what the sentence is about
Give the two grammar numbers.
singular, plural
The imperfect tense is used to describe an ___, ___, ___ or ___ ___action.
ongoing, repeated, habitual; interrupted
What is the name of the 2nd principal part?
infinitive
Give the names for the three forms of the English present tense.
simple present, progressive present, emphatic present
How do you find the present stem?
Drop re from the infinitive
Give the English forms of the to be verb.
am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been
The English infinitive is written with the particle ___ before the verb.
to
The present system is built on the ___.
present stem
Give the names, from left to right, of the last three syllables of a Latin word.
antepenult; penult; ultima
The imperfect tense sign is ___.
ba
In English I praise is the ___ present, I am praising is the ___ present, and I do praise is the ___ present.
simple; progressive; emphatic
How many Latin tenses are there? Name them.
six; present, imperfect, future, perfect, pluperfect, future perfect
How many conjugations are there? Name them.
four; first, second, third, fourth
The infinitive ending for all 1st conjugation verbs is ___.
-are
Always in Latin and usually in English, c, g, and sc are hard before
a, o, u, consonants
The accent is on the ___ unless the ___ is marked.
penult; antepenult
The to be verb shows ___, not ___.
existence; action
In Latin grammar, imperfect means ___.
not finished
In Latin and English, hard c has the sound of
/k/
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
Give the three grammar persons.
first person, second person, third person
The three tenses that make up the present system are ___.
present, imperfect, future
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.
Give two Latin words that have the long sound of the five vowels.
glória Jesu
The 1st person is the person ___.
The 2nd person is the person ___.
The 3rd person is the person ___.
speaking
spoken to
spoken about
What English helping verbs translate the imperfect tense?
were, was
Give the six attributes of a Latin verb.
conjugation, person, number, tense, voice, mood
In Latin, gn is pronounced like ___. Give two examples.
/ny/; pugno (I fight), magnus (large)
What is Sentence Pattern #1?
Subject + Verb
Verb families are called ___.
conjugations
The two basic parts of a sentence are ___.
the subject and the predicate
The stem vowel of the 1st conjugation is __.
a
What English helping verb translates the Latin future tenses?
will
