Lesson 15: Grammar Review

Question 1

What is the first complement in this text?

Answer 1

the complementary infinitive

Question 2

What English helping verb translates the Latin future tenses?

Answer 2

will

Question 3

The 1st person is the person ___.

The 2nd person is the person ___.

The 3rd person is the person ___.

Answer 3

speaking

spoken to

spoken about

Question 4

The future perfect tense describes what kind of action?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What is the subject case?

Answer 5

nominative

Question 6

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

Answer 6

penult; antepenult

Question 7

In Latin grammar, imperfect means ___.

Answer 7

not finished

Question 8

What is the to/for case?

Answer 8

dative

Question 9

The perfect tense is built on the ___ stem.

Answer 9

perfect

Question 10

What English helping verbs translate the future perfect tense?

Answer 10

will have

Question 11

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

Answer 11

ablative

Question 12

The pluperfect tense describes what kind of action?

Answer 12

a past action completed prior to another past action

Question 13

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

Answer 13

conjugations; declensions

Question 14

Give the four attributes of nouns.

Answer 14

declension, gender, number, and case

Question 15

What is the indirect object case?

Answer 15

dative

Question 16

Nouns that name non-living things have ___ gender.

Answer 16

grammatical

Question 17

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

Answer 17

-o -are -avi -atus

Question 18

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

Answer 18

antepenult; penult; ultima

Question 19

Name the cases in order.

Answer 19

nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative

Question 20

What is Sentence Pattern #2?

Answer 20

Subject + Verb + Direct Object

Question 21

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

Answer 21

ongoing, repeated, habitual; interrupted

Question 22

The pluperfect tense is built on the ___ stem.

Answer 22

perfect

Question 23

What is the of case?

Answer 23

genitive

Question 24

Give the two grammar numbers.

Answer 24

singular, plural

Question 25

What is the *possessive* case?

Answer 25

genitive

Question 26

In Latin and English, hard c has the sound of

Answer 26

/k/

Question 27

Give three translations for **amavi**.

Answer 27

I loved, I have loved, I did love

Question 28

What English helping verbs translate the imperfect tense?

Answer 28

were, was

Question 29

What is the *direct object* case?

Answer 29

accusative

Question 30

How do you find the perfect stem?

Answer 30

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

Question 31

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

Answer 31

**agricola, nauta, poeta**

Question 32

To what does the *case* of a noun refer?

Answer 32

the job (function) of a noun in a sentence

Question 33

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

Answer 33

finished

Question 34

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

Answer 34

a, e, i, o, u /ah/ /ay/ /ee/ /oh/ ōō/

Question 35

Something that completes the action of the verb is a \_\_\_.

Answer 35

complement

Question 36

The subject tells

Answer 36

**who** or **what** the sentence is about

Question 37

The predicate tells \_\_\_

Answer 37

what the subject **is** or **does**

Question 38

How many Latin tenses are there? Name them.

Answer 38

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

Question 39

The three genders are \_\_\_.

Answer 39

masculine, feminine, neuter

Question 40

The *to be* verb shows \_\_\_, not \_\_\_.

Answer 40

existence; action

Question 41

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

Answer 41

**-are**

Question 42

What is *Sentence Pattern #1*?

Answer 42

Subject + Verb

Question 43

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

Answer 43

present, imperfect, future

Question 44

1st-declension nouns are usually what gender?

Answer 44

feminine

Question 45

Latin does not have the English articles \_\_\_.

Answer 45

a, an, the

Question 46

The pluperfect tense endings are identical to \_\_\_.

Answer 46

the imperfect tense of **sum**

Question 47

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

Answer 47

-**ae**

Question 48

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

Answer 48

**ba**

Question 49

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

Answer 49

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

Question 50

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

Answer 50

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

Question 51

The two basic parts of a sentence are \_\_\_.

Answer 51

the subject and the predicate

Question 52

What English helping verbs translate the Latin perfect tense?

Answer 52

have, has, did

Question 53

The perfect tense describes what kind of action?

Answer 53

a one-time action completed in the past

Question 54

Give the English forms of the *to be* verb.

Answer 54

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

Question 55

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

Answer 55

to

Question 56

How many conjugations are there? Name them.

Answer 56

four; first, second, third, fourth

Question 57

What is the name of the 2nd principal part?

Answer 57

infinitive

Question 58

How many declensions are there? Name them.

Answer 58

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

Question 59

What are principal parts? How many are there?

Answer 59

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

Question 60

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

Answer 60

/s/; /ch/

Question 61

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

Answer 61

**a, o, u**, consonants

Question 62

Give the six attributes of a Latin verb.

Answer 62

conjugation, person, number, tense, voice, mood

Question 63

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

Answer 63

simple present, progressive present, emphatic present

Question 64

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

Answer 64

a

Question 65

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

Answer 65

glória Jesu

Question 66

The future perfect tense is built on the ___ stem.

Answer 66

perfect

Question 67

How do you find the present stem?

Answer 67

Drop **re** from the infinitive

Question 68

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

Answer 68

perfect, pluperfect, future perfect; perfect stem

Question 69

Give three translations for the Latin noun **mensa**.

Answer 69

table, a table, the table

Question 70

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

Answer 70

simple; progressive; emphatic

Question 71

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

Answer 71

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

Question 72

The present system is built on the \_\_\_.

Answer 72

present stem

Question 73

Give the three grammar persons.

Answer 73

first person, second person, third person

Question 74

What English helping verb translates the pluperfect tense?

Answer 74

had

Question 75

Verb families are called \_\_\_.

Answer 75

conjugations

Question 76

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

Answer 76

**e, i, ae, oe**