First Lessons in Latin: Or an Introduction to Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar |
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a'-cres ablative accusative active voice adjective admire adverbs advised amātus atum au-di-ti ausus bo'-nis Cæsar castra clause Compare Rule compounds conj conjugation čre dare dative Defective Verbs denoting deponent verb e'-rant erat ère ĕri es'-se or fu-is'-se es'-sem feminine followed form their genitive fuit gender genitive GERUND hæc hence il'-lis IMPERATIVE IMPERATIVE MOOD Imperfect INDICATIVE MOOD Infin INFINITIVE MOOD ip'-sis itum la'-tus Latin learn Exercise loved Masc masculine mihi neut neuter nominative noun ōris ōrum participle passive voice Perf person or thing pi'-gris Plup Pluperfect Plur Plural præ predicate Pres pron proposition quæ quàm qui'-bus Quis quod quum rec'-tus REMARK Repeat the Rule Rule 55 Rule 96 Rules for translating second declension second root signifying Sing singular number SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD sunt SUPINES tempus tense termination third declension third root thou tive Urbs verb vocative word
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Page 58 - See tense. person, as a grammatical term, refers to the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken about. First person is the person(s) speaking (such as "I," "me," "my," "mine," "we," "us," "our," or "ours"). Second person is the person(s) or thing(s) spoken to (such as "thou," "thee," "thy," "thine," "ye," "you," "your,
Page 9 - A, a; B, b; C, c ; D, d; E, e ; F, f; G, g; H, h; I, i; J, j; K, k ; L, 1; M, m ; N, n...
Page 80 - There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative.
Page 15 - MOODS. $ 143. Moods are forms of the verb, denoting the manner of the action or state expressed by the verb. There are in Latin four moods; — the indicative, the subjunctive, the imperative, and the infinitive.
Page 115 - Latin ablative, see § 458. [§ 394.] 7. The following verbs (which in the passive voice have two nominatives), have in the active two accusatives, one of the object and the other of the predicate : dicere...
Page 47 - Impersonal verbs are those which are used only in the third person singular, and do not admit of a personal subject. 1. Their English is generally preceded by the pronoun it, especially in the active voice ; as, délectât, it delights ; decet, it becomes ; contingit, it happens ; evenit, it happens ; scribitur, it is written, &.C.
Page 72 - An adjective is a word which qualifies or limits the meaning of a substantive. Adjectives are declined like substantives, and are either of the first and second declensions, or of the third only.
Page 265 - ... of the Latin language and in the knowledge of its roots, from which so many words of the English language are derived, but will constitute the best preparation for a thorough study of English grammar. SECOND SERIES. This Series is designed more especially for those who are intending to become thoroughly acquainted with the Latin language, and with the principal classical authors of that language. It consists of the following...
Page 91 - The propositions composing a complex or a compound sentence are called its members or clauses ; the principal proposition is called the leading clause, its subject, the leading subject, and its verb, the leading \erb.
Page 20 - SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD. Present Tense, may or can. 1. Sim, I may be, Simus, We may be, 2. Sis, Thou mayest be, Sitis, Ye may be, 3. Sit, He may be ; Sint, They may be, Imperfect, might, could, wmtld, or should.