Lesson 6: Unit 1 Grammar Review

Question 1

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

Answer 1

a, e, i, o, u

/ah/ /ay/ /ee/ /oh/ ōō/

Question 2

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

Answer 2

glória Jesu

Question 3

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

Answer 3

e, i, ae, oe

Question 4

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

Answer 4

a, o, u, consonants

Question 5

In Latin and English, hard c has the sound of

Answer 5

/k/

Question 6

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

Answer 6

/s/; /ch/

Question 7

In Latin, gn is pronounced like ___. Give two examples.

Answer 7

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

Question 8

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

Answer 8

antepenult; penult; ultima

Question 9

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

Answer 9

penult; antepenult

Question 10

Verb families are called ___.

Answer 10

conjugations

Question 11

How many conjugations are there? Name them.

Answer 11

four; first, second, third, fourth

Question 12

Give the six attributes of a Latin verb.

Answer 12

conjugation, person, number, tense, voice, mood

Question 13

Give the three grammar persons.

Answer 13

first person, second person, third person

Question 14

The 1st person is the person ___.

The 2nd person is the person ___.

The 3rd person is the person ___.

Answer 14

speaking

spoken to

spoken about

Question 15

Give the two grammar numbers.

Answer 15

singular, plural

Question 16

How many Latin tenses are there? Name them.

Answer 16

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

Question 17

The stem vowel of the 1st conjugation is __.

Answer 17

a

Question 18

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

Answer 18

simple present, progressive present, emphatic present

Question 19

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

Answer 19

simple; progressive; emphatic

Question 20

In Latin grammar, imperfect means ___.

Answer 20

not finished

Question 21

The imperfect tense sign is ___.

Answer 21

ba

Question 22

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

Answer 22

ongoing, repeated, habitual; interrupted

Question 23

What English helping verbs translate the imperfect tense?

Answer 23

were, was

Question 24

The two basic parts of a sentence are ___.

Answer 24

the subject and the predicate

Question 25

The subject tells

Answer 25

who or what the sentence is about

Question 26

The predicate tells ___

Answer 26

what the subject is or does

Question 27

What is Sentence Pattern #1?

Answer 27

Subject + Verb

Question 28

What English helping verb translates the Latin future tenses?

Answer 28

will

Question 29

The three tenses that make up the present system are ___.

Answer 29

present, imperfect, future

Question 30

The present system is built on the ___.

Answer 30

present stem

Question 31

What are principal parts? How many are there?

Answer 31

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

Question 32

What is the name of the 2nd principal part?

Answer 32

infinitive

Question 33

The infinitive ending for all 1st conjugation verbs is ___.

Answer 33

-are

Question 34

How do you find the present stem?

Answer 34

Drop re from the infinitive

Question 35

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

Answer 35

to

Question 36

The to be verb shows ___, not ___.

Answer 36

existence; action

Question 37

Give the English forms of the to be verb.

Answer 37

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