Year 9 Latin Summer Revision Checklist (2008)


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NOUNS: endings of puella, servus and leo.

Neuter Nouns: i) Nom=Acc; ii) Nom and Acc. Plural end in -a

Use of nouns:      Marcus, a friend of Flavia, baked a cake for Sempronia, a friend of Sextus in the kitchen with flour.

                                                    Nom.     Nom.        Gen.                Acc.           Dat.             Dat.        Gen.              Abl.            Abl.  

Two ways of forming Adverbs: laete   stulte   optime   celerrime BUT audacter   diligenter   sapienter   fortiter

Four tenses of verbs (the "Indicative"):


Present traho I drag
Imperfect trahebam I was dragging, I used to drag
Perfect traxi I dragged, I have dragged
Pluperfect traxeram I had dragged

Present Participle             
Singular
 portans tenens trahens audiens
Plural
 portantes


=
 carrying
 holding
 dragging
 hearing
                                                                                                                      (endings like leo)

Perfect Participle (4th Principal. Part)

portatus missus       
coactus   
deceptus   
interfectus  
patefactus   
= having been carried




                                                                                                                       (endings like puella and servus)

A Perfect Participle is Passive unless a verb is a ....................... .

ingressus secutus locutus passus adeptus
having entered




1. Cogidubnus, in horto sedens, Quintum salutavit.

2. Cogidubnus Quintum in hortum intrantem salutavit.

3. Quintus, per hortum                    , multa de vita sua narravit. (ambulans / ambulantes)

4. Salvius et Rufilla, in aulam                     , Quintum salutaverunt. (intrans / intrantem / intrantes)

5. Salvius cibum in triclinium a servis portatum gustavit.

6. Vilbia, a Modesto decepta, iterum Bulbum amavit.

7. Bulbus, a Modesto                          , sub mensa iacebat. (verberatus, verberata, verberato)

8. servum                        in ripa reliquerunt. (interfectus, interfecta, interfectum)

9. Agricola militem e principiis egressum salutavit.


Active and Passive identification?

The cook prepared the dinner. The dinner was prepared by the cook.


The dinner was being prepared. The cook coughed.



THE SUBJUNCTIVE

Imperfect:     made from Infinitive              scriberem   = a)    I was writing      b)  I might/could write

Pluperfect  = 3rd Pr. Part +issem etc      scripsissem   =    I had written



THREE USES OF THE SUBJUNCTIVE

1 cum= WHEN + Subjunctive

cum epistulam scriberet =

cum epistulam scripsisset =


2 INDIRECT QUESTIONS have a Subjunctive:
                                             (Question words: quis who      quid what     cur why    ubi where      quo where to )

"quid faciebas?"

BUT nescio quid faceres.

nesciebat cur fecisset.

3 ut PURPOSE

1. cum clamorem audivisset, in hortum festinavit.

    iuvenis cum amicum audiret, puellam spectabat.

2. me rogavit quo irem.

    tibi dixit ubi hoc invenisset.

3. Salvius venenum comparavit ut inimicum necaret.


Gerundives: portandus   monendus    trahendus    capiendus     audiendus


If it ends in -ndum and goes with est or erat, it has a sense of "must". A word in the DATIVE tells you who must do something:

mihi laborandum est

servis currendum erat.




ROMAN LIFE: religion, travel , legionary soldier