Ideas: Ch 1-20

• 5 Characteristics:
•      Person
•     Tense
•     Number
•     Mood
•     Voice

• 1st:    s) -o/-m   I                pl) -mus     we
• 2nd:   s) -s      you              pl) -tis       ya'll
• 3rd:   s) -t    he/she/it          pl) -nt       they

• 2nd Principal Part:
• I           laudare     to praise
• II         moneo      to advise
• III        legere        to read
• IIIio     capere      to capture
• IV        audire       to hear

• Stem of the 2nd Pricipal Part
• I          s)  lauda     pl) lauda-te     (you/ya'll) praise!
• II         s) mone      pl) mone-te     (you/ya'll) advise!
• III        s) lege        pl) leg-ite        (you/ya'll) read!
• IIIio     s) cape      pl) cap-ite         (you/ya'll) capture!
• IV        s) audi       pl) audi-te        (you/ya'll) hear!

a word that modifies a verb, adj, or another adverb (usually placed before that word)

• non valet  :  not (she) is well  --> she is not well
• "well" is the verb, modified by "not"

• 1. Present Active Infinitive: laudo, I praise
• 2. Present Active Infinitive: laudare, to praise
• 3. Perfect Active Indicative: lautavi, I praised, have praised
• 4. Perfect Passive Participle: laudatum, praised, having been praised

a noun or pronoun that occurs with (usually after) a preposition, together they create a "prepositional phrase" that modifies a noun or verb

preposition + noun/pronoun; modifies a noun or verb:

noun: agricola ad portam est vir bonus = the farmer at the gate is a good man, "at the gate" tells you which farmer

verb: agricola ad portam ambulat = the farmer is walking to the gate, "to the gate" tells you where he's verbing

• Nom             -none-
• Gen             of, -'s
• Dat                to, for
• Ac                direct obj, usually gets prep.phrase
• Ab                by, with, from, in

• a noun positioned beside another noun as an explanatory equivalent:
• Tony, filium meum, in agro videt
• I see Tony, my son, in the field
• (son = Tony)

a verb that connects its subject with a noun or adjective in the predicate

• *sentence is divided into:
• [subject w/ it's modifiers] + [predicate: verb and its dependent words and phrases]

Nouns and their adjectives in the Predicate part of a sentence, usually connected to the subject with a linking verb (ie: is, are, to be)