Chapter 8 What is a verb a word

Chapter 8

What is a verb? a word that expresses an action, state or condition

What does a verb tell? what a subject is or does

How many persons do verbs have? three

How does English indicate the person of a verb? use of a personal pronoun

person 1 st: the person speaking singular plural I 2 nd: the person spoken to you 3 rd: the person/thing he, she, it spoken about we you all they

Latin singular 1 st: 2 nd: 3 rd: English singular Latin plural English plural -o (-m) I -mus we -s you -tis you all -nt they -t he, she, it Mickey Mouse Song

You find the stem of the verb by -re dropping off the _____ from the nd 2 principal part _____________ also infinitive known as the __________.

Activity 1 - conjugate amo, amāre - stem _________ Latin -singular English - singular Latin - plural English - plural 1 st: 2 nd: 3 rd: habito, habitāre - stem ____________ laboro, laborāre - stem ____________

irregular verb to be Latin -singular 1 st: 2 nd: 3 rd: English - singular Latin - plural English - plural

-o, -m = I ego -s = you tu -mus = we nos -tis = you all vos

Activity 2 - Supply one of the pronouns to serve as the subject of each of the following verbs. ego tu nos vos 1. _______ excitamus 6. _______ curatis 2. _______ paras 7. _______ vides 3. _______ sedeo 8. _______ intramus 4. _______ timetis 9. _______ advenio 5. _______ sum 10. _______es

Activity 3 - Translate the following sentences. 1. Cur e villā in silvam saepe ambulatis, puellae? 2. Pueri quoque in eadem silvā ambulant. 3. Irata sum quod servos sedentes (sitting) conspicio.

4. Arbores ascendimus quod lupi *nos (us) terrent. 5. (*nos - if in the middle of sentence is us) "Sexte! Marce!" clamat Cornelia. "Cur non surgitis? "

6. "Eheu!" inquit Davus. "Semper ego laboro; semper pueri me vexant; ad Britanniam redīre volo. " 7. Omnia paramus quod Romam hodie redimus.

8. Servi in villā sedent; neque Aureliam audiunt neque respondent, nam defessi sunt. 9. Nondum lucet et Marcus surgere non vult. 10. Necesse non est iterum clamāre.

What is meant by direct address? directly speaking to a person or persons

What is the name for the case used for direct address? vocative

vocative nominative The ______ case is just like the ______ 2 nd declension nouns such as case except for ______ Marcus Sextus servus ____________, or ______. -us -e They change their ____ ending to an ____. Cornelius -us Nouns like _______ will drop the ____ -i vocative and end in _______ in the _______ case. "Sexte! Marce!" clamat Cornelia. "Corneli!" clamat Aurelia.

Activity 4 - Give the Latin in the vocative case for the underlined words. 1. "Marcus, Cornelia, come here!" _______ 2. "Come here, boys!" _______ 3. "Come here, my son!" _____________