Lesson 7: Grammar Review

Question 1

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

Answer 1

conjugations; declensions

Question 2

How many declensions are there? Name them.

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Give the four attributes of nouns.

Answer 3

declension, gender, number, and case

Question 4

The three genders are ___.

Answer 4

masculine, feminine, neuter

Question 5

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

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Nouns that name non-living things have ___ gender.

Answer 6

grammatical

Question 7

To what does the case of a noun refer?

Answer 7

the job (function) of a noun in a sentence

Question 8

Name the cases in order.

Answer 8

nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative

Question 9

What is the subject case?

Answer 9

nominative

Question 10

What is the direct object case?

Answer 10

accusative

Question 11

What is the indirect object case?

Answer 11

dative

Question 12

What is the possessive case?

Answer 12

genitive

Question 13

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

Answer 13

ablative

Question 14

What is the to/for case?

Answer 14

dative

Question 15

What is the of case?

Answer 15

genitive

Question 16

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

Answer 16

-ae

Question 17

1st-declension nouns are usually what gender?

Answer 17

feminine

Question 18

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

Answer 18

agricola, nauta, poeta

Question 19

Latin does not have the English articles ___.

Answer 19

a, an, the

Question 20

Give three translations for the Latin noun mensa.

Answer 20

table, a table, the table

Question 21

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

Answer 21

-i

Question 22

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

Answer 22

masculine

Question 23

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

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Verbs have ___ endings and nouns have ___ endings.

Answer 24

personal, tense; case

Question 25

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

Answer 25

neuter

Question 26

The natural gender rule ___ all other gender rules.

Answer 26

trumps

Question 27

What is the *neuter* rule?

Answer 27

nominative and accusative endings are the same nominative and accusative plural ending is **-a**

Question 28

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

Answer 28

genitive singular

Question 29

The subject and verb must agree in \_\_\_.

Answer 29

person and number

Question 30

What does an adjective do?

Answer 30

An adjective modifies or describes a noun or pronoun.

Question 31

In Latin an adjective must agree with its noun in \_\_\_, \_\_\_, and \_\_\_, but not \_\_\_.

Answer 31

gender, number, case; declension

Question 32

Usually an adjective of ___ precedes a noun, and an adjective of ___ follows a noun.

Answer 32

quantity or size; quality

Question 33

Counting numbers are called ___ numbers.

Answer 33

cardinal

Question 34

Numbers which indicate the order of things in a series are called ___ numbers.

Answer 34

ordinal

Question 35

What is *Sentence Pattern #3*?

Answer 35

Subject + Linking verb + Predicate Adjective

Question 36

What is *Sentence Pattern #4*?

Answer 36

Subject + Linking verb + Predicate Nominative