Lesson 8: Grammar Review Flashcards
Give the five vowel letters and their long sounds in Latin.
a, e, i, o, u
/ah/ /ay/ /ee/ /oh/ ōō/
Give two Latin words that have the long sound of the five vowels.
glória Jesu
Always in Latin and usually in English, c, g, and sc are hard before
a, o, u, consonants
Always in Latin and usually in English, c, g, and sc are soft before
e, i, ae, oe
In Latin and English, hard c has the sound of
/k/
Soft c has the sound of ___ in English and ___ in Latin.
/s/; /ch/
In Latin, gn is pronounced like ___. Give two examples.
/ny/; pugno (I fight), magnus (large)
Give the names, from left to right, of the last three syllables of a Latin word.
antepenult; penult; ultima
The accent is on the ___ unless the ___ is marked.
penult; antepenult
Verb families are called ___.
conjugations
Give the six attributes of a Latin verb.
conjugation, person, number, tense, voice, mood
How many conjugations are there? Name them.
four; first, second, third, fourth
Give the three grammar persons.
first person, second person, third person
The 1st person is the person ___.
The 2nd person is the person ___.
The 3rd person is the person ___.
speaking
spoken to
spoken about
Give the two grammar numbers.
singular, plural
How many Latin tenses are there? Name them.
six; present, imperfect, future, perfect, pluperfect, future perfect
The stem vowel of the 1st conjugation is __.
a
Give the names for the three forms of the English present tense.
simple present, progressive present, emphatic present
In English I praise is the ___ present, I am praising is the ___ present, and I do praise is the ___ present.
simple; progressive; emphatic
In Latin grammar, imperfect means ___.
not finished
The imperfect tense sign is ___.
ba
The imperfect tense is used to describe an ___, ___, ___ or ___ ___action.
ongoing, repeated, habitual; interrupted
What English helping verbs translate the imperfect tense?
were, was
The two basic parts of a sentence are ___.
the subject and the predicate
