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.