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Ablative Accusative action Active adjectives admit adverbs advised become belong Caes called cause changed classes clause common comparative compounds condition conjugation Conjunctions consonant construction Dactyl Dative declension declined denoting dependent designates desire direct dropped endings English ĕre especially examples expressed feminine final foot force form the genitive fourth Future gender genitive Gerund Iambus IMPERATIVE Imperfect Indicative INDICATIVE MOOD Infinitive Irregular Italy Latin loved masculine meaning MOOD names neuter nominative nouns object occurs omitted PARTICIPLE Passive Perf Perfect person PLUPERFECT PLURAL preceded Predicate preposition Pres Present principal pronoun proper quam quid quis quod quum rarely reference regular relative RULE sense sentence short simple SINGULAR sometimes sound stem Subjunctive sunt Supine supplied syllable tenses things third Trochaic verbs verse Virg vowel
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Page iii - Latin language; to exhibit not only grammatical forms and constructions, but also those vital principles which underlie, control, and explain them. 2. Designed at once as a text-book for the class-room, and a book of reference in study, it aims to introduce the beginner easily and pleasantly to the first principles of the language, and yet to make adequate provision for the wants of the more advanced student.
Page 6 - In the pronunciation of Latin, every word has as many syllables as it has vowels and diphthongs ; thus the Latin words, more, vice, acute, and persuade, are pronounced, not as the same words are in English, but with their vowel sounds all heard in separate syllables ; thus, more, vi-ce, a-cu-te, per-sua-de.
Page iv - By brevity and conciseness in the choice of phraseology and compactness in the arrangement of forms and topics, the author has endeavored to compress within the limits of a convenient manual an amount of carefully. selected grammatical facts, which would otherwise fill a much larger volume. 4. He has, moreover, endeavored to present the whole subject in the light of modern scholarship.
Page 9 - The Latin, like the English, has three persons and two numbers. The first person denotes the speaker ; the second, the person spoken to ; the third, the person spoken of. The singular number denotes one, the plural more than one.
Page 199 - Accusative: — ad, adversus, adversum, ante, apud, circa, or circum, circiter, cis, citra, contra, erga, extra, infra, inter, intra, juxta, ob, penes, per, pone, post, praeter, prope, propter, secundum, supra, trans, ultra, versus.
Page 66 - GERUND, — which gives the meaning of the verb in the form of a verbal noun of the second declension, used only in the genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative singular. It corresponds to the English participial noun in ING: amandi, of loving ; amandi causa, for the sake of loving.
Page 165 - When a verb takes the passive construction 1) The direct object of the active becomes the subject of the passive, and 2) The subject of the active becomes the Ablative of Cause (414) or the Ablative of Agent with a or ab (414.
Page 171 - Disadvantage is used with verbs signifying to benefit or injure, please or displease, command or obey, serve or resist ; also, indulge, spare, pardon, envy, threaten, be angry, believe, persuade, and the like : Sibi prosunt, They benefit themselves.