Lesson 11: Grammar Review

Question 1

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

Answer 1

ongoing, repeated, habitual; interrupted

Question 2

What English helping verb translates the Latin future tenses?

Answer 2

will

Question 3

What are principal parts? How many are there?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Give the three grammar persons.

Answer 4

first person, second person, third person

Question 5

The perfect tense describes what kind of action?

Answer 5

a one-time action completed in the past

Question 6

How do you find the present stem?

Answer 6

Drop re from the infinitive

Question 7

In Latin grammar, perfect means ___.

Answer 7

finished

Question 8

What English helping verbs translate the imperfect tense?

Answer 8

were, was

Question 9

The perfect tense is built on the ___ stem.

Answer 9

perfect

Question 10

The pluperfect tense describes what kind of action?

Answer 10

a past action completed prior to another past action

Question 11

What English helping verbs translate the future perfect tense?

Answer 11

will have

Question 12

The to be verb shows ___, not ___.

Answer 12

existence; action

Question 13

The pluperfect tense endings are identical to ___.

Answer 13

the imperfect tense of sum

Question 14

Give the six attributes of a Latin verb.

Answer 14

conjugation, person, number, tense, voice, mood

Question 15

Something that completes the action of the verb is a ___.

Answer 15

complement

Question 16

The present system is built on the ___.

Answer 16

present stem

Question 17

The predicate tells ___

Answer 17

what the subject is or does

Question 18

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

Answer 18

simple; progressive; emphatic

Question 19

The subject tells

Answer 19

who or what the sentence is about

Question 20

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

Answer 20

a, o, u, consonants

Question 21

What is the name of the 2nd principal part?

Answer 21

infinitive

Question 22

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

Answer 22

simple present, progressive present, emphatic present

Question 23

The two basic parts of a sentence are ___.

Answer 23

the subject and the predicate

Question 24

Give the English forms of the to be verb.

Answer 24

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

Question 25

The future perfect tense endings are identical to ___ except for the \_\_\_.

Answer 25

the future tense of **sum**; 3rd person plural

Question 26

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

Answer 26

antepenult; penult; ultima

Question 27

The infinitive ending for all 1st conjugation verbs is \_\_\_.

Answer 27

**-are**

Question 28

In Latin grammar, *imperfect* means \_\_\_.

Answer 28

not finished

Question 29

What English helping verb translates the pluperfect tense?

Answer 29

had

Question 30

The future perfect tense describes what kind of action?

Answer 30

a future action that will be completed prior to another future action

Question 31

What English helping verbs translate the Latin perfect tense?

Answer 31

have, has, did

Question 32

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

Answer 32

to

Question 33

The imperfect tense sign is \_\_\_.

Answer 33

**ba**

Question 34

How many conjugations are there? Name them.

Answer 34

four; first, second, third, fourth

Question 35

How many Latin tenses are there? Name them.

Answer 35

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

Question 36

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

Answer 36

a, e, i, o, u /ah/ /ay/ /ee/ /oh/ ōō/

Question 37

What is the first complement in this text?

Answer 37

the complementary infinitive

Question 38

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

Answer 38

**e, i, ae, oe**

Question 39

The stem vowel of the 1st conjugation is \_\_.

Answer 39

a

Question 40

The three tenses that make up the present system are \_\_\_.

Answer 40

present, imperfect, future

Question 41

The 1st person is the person \_\_\_. The 2nd person is the person \_\_\_. The 3rd person is the person \_\_\_.

Answer 41

speaking spoken to spoken about

Question 42

What is *Sentence Pattern #1*?

Answer 42

Subject + Verb

Question 43

In Latin, **gn** is pronounced like \_\_\_. Give two examples.

Answer 43

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

Question 44

How do you find the perfect stem?

Answer 44

Drop **-i** from the 3rd principal part.

Question 45

The tenses that make up the present system are \_\_\_, \_\_\_, ___ and they are built on the \_\_\_.

Answer 45

perfect, pluperfect, future perfect; perfect stem

Question 46

What is *Sentence Pattern #2*?

Answer 46

Subject + Verb + Direct Object

Question 47

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

Answer 47

penult; antepenult

Question 48

The pluperfect tense is built on the ___ stem.

Answer 48

perfect

Question 49

The future perfect tense is built on the ___ stem.

Answer 49

perfect

Question 50

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

Answer 50

/s/; /ch/

Question 51

Give three translations for **amavi**.

Answer 51

I loved, I have loved, I did love

Question 52

Give the two grammar numbers.

Answer 52

singular, plural

Question 53

Verb families are called \_\_\_.

Answer 53

conjugations

Question 54

Give the regular endings for the principal parts of 1st conjugation verbs.

Answer 54

**-o -are -avi -atus**

Question 55

In Latin and English, hard c has the sound of

Answer 55

/k/

Question 56

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

Answer 56

glória Jesu