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20 Cards in this Set
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Parts of Speech
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Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions
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Nouns are:
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singular and plural
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Noun gender:
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masculine, feminine or neuter
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Nouns in Latin are declined in the following cases:
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Nominative, genitive, dative, accusative and ablative
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Purpose of the cases in Latin
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Nominative = the subject or predicate
Genitive = shows possession Dative = the indirect object Accusative = the direct object Ablative = object of a preposition |
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Adjectives agree with the word modified
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In number, gender and case
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Learning a noun in Latin we memorize
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Nominative singular, genitive singular, gender and meaning
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Learning a verb in Latin we memorize the four principal parts
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1st person singular present tense
Infinitive 1st person singular perfect tense Past participle |
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Verbs have
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Person, number, tense, mood, voice (Please, no talking Mr. Virgil)
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Verbs have two numbers
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Singular and Plural
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Verbs have three persons
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1st, 2nd, 3rd
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Verbs can have six tenses
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(we have learned one so far - the present)
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Verbs have three moods
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the indicative, the imperative and the subjunctive
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Verbs can have two voices
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the active and the passive
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1st declension endings
singular - feminine |
a, ae, ae, am, a
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1st declension endings
plural - feminine |
ae, arum, is, as, is
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2nd declension ending
singular - masculine |
us, i, o, um, o
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2nd declension ending
plural - masculine |
i, orum, is, os, is
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2nd declension ending
singular - neuter |
um, i, o, um, o
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2nd declension ending
plural - neuter |
a, orum, is, a, is
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