Sorry for being out of touch!! I have several projects going on right now, including finding a teaching position for next year. By next Wednesday the dust will have cleared and I'll be more available.

For next Friday:

Translate chapter 40. Click here for a translation.
Read the section on present participles. We have seen these before, used as adjectives.
Do exercise 40c and 40d (you can always do every other one, just to check yourself). I will be posting the answers later today! Click here for the answers.

You can always email me if you have questions. I will plan to see you next Friday (May 2) unless I hear otherwise.

Salvete, discipuli!
Magistra

Here are some exercises to do in order to practice the grammar from chapters 34-39.

Review VIII, exercises a, b, and c:
Practice comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs, practice the conjugation of deponent verbs
For answers, click here.

38b:
Practice translating sentences using vocabulary from chapter 38 and number vocabulary. For answers, click here.

39c:
Practice translating sentences using vocabulary from chapter 39 and forms of place names. For answers, click here.

I have translated the stories of chapter 38 and 39 for you to use in order for you to check your work. Click here for the chapter 38 translation and here for the chapter 39 translation.

I will be adding some of the exercises from these chapters in the next several days, so check back!

On Friday, we read the chapter story in chapter 35. This story gives you practice with the passive voice, the use of the 4th principal part and the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs. Click here for a translation.

For some practice with verb tenses, try this exercise:

Verb Tense Practice:

Give the English translations for these verbs. I’m giving you the principal parts this time around!

videō, vidēre, vīdī, visus

vīdimus                    2. vidēbāmus

vīdēbō                      4. vīdērunt

videt                         6. vīderant

vidētis                      8. vīdistis

vīderitis                   10. vidēbātur

11. vidētur               12. vidēbiminī
                   
vidēbar                    14. videntur

visus es                    16. visī erant

visus erit                  18. visae erunt


capiō, capere, cēpī, captus

capient                    2. cēpistis

capit                        4. cēpit

cēperāmus              6. capiēbās

caperis                    8. capiēbātur

9. capior                 10. captus est

capiēmus                12. captī erunt

capiēris                   14. captae erātis

 capitis                    16. capta sum

17. capiēbāmur                18. capientur


Click here for the answers!

We WILL meet tomorrow - Friday. Apologies for not putting more material on the blog. I will try to post an exercise on verb tenses tonight!

I hope you're enjoying the SNOW!!

The quiz scheduled for Thursday will be given on Monday. There will be some noun declining as well as principal parts.

Homework for Monday is 22f, odd-numbered only. This exercise asks you to distinguish between the dative and the ablative. We have talked about this in class. When it involves a person, if there is no preposition, the case will almost always be dative. You are also looking at context: is someone saying, giving, explaining, preparing something FOR someone? Is there a relevant preposition? Is the verb appropinquo involved (that requires the ablative)? Is either the expression licet or necesse est involved?

For further explanation, see p. 191.

Work on Chapter 39 (for those of you who are at chapter 39!):

Click here for the translation of 39f, the short biography of Vergil.

Last Friday we translated the story in chapter 37: Off to School. Chapter 37 deals with deponent verbs: verbs that have the structure and conjugation of verbs in the passive voice but are translated actively. Their principal parts are consequently different.

For example:

cōnor, cōnārī, cōnātus sum: to try Note that the first principal part is the 1st person singular, present tense form (just like a "normal" verb), the second principal part is the passive infinitive, and, instead of 3rd and 4th principal parts, you have the 1st person singular, perfect tense form (just like a "normal" verb).

There is a chart on page 99, followed by a list of common deponent verbs.

An excellent way to practice these is by doing exercise 37d. Click here for the answers.

I was sick yesterday and so the study group did not meet. We WILL meet next week! I suggest you reserve a half-hour twice a week to"study" Latin. (This would help you make progress. If you just want to come on Fridays, that's fine, too!)

For the first task, I've given you some exercises from the book on COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES. Click here for an explanation and some forms.

Translate the sentences below. Click here for the answers.


Hic servus est ignāvissimus omnium. Nūllum servum ignāviōrem habet Cornēlius.

Cornēliī coquus est optimus omnium. Nēmō meliōrem coquum habet quam Cornēlius.

Līberī laetissimī sunt quod crās fēriātī erunt.

Mārtiālis [nom.] Eucleide [abl.] est multō prūdentior.

Ego semper habeō multō minus pecūniae quam tū.

Mārcus est maximus līberōrum, Sextus est minimus.

Flāvia est paulō minor Mārcō, sed multō maior Cornēliā.

Ad amīcum epistulam longissimam mittam, ad frātrem breviōrem.

Dāvus est servus optimus. Sine dubiō nēmō est dīligenter.

Coquus plūs cibī in culīnā parābat.