Latin I: Midterm Review (Nouns/Adjectives)

Which of the following properties are for nouns and adjectives and which are for verbs?

Groups:

(a) nōmina adiectīvaque / nouns & adjectives

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(b) verba / verbs

• tense / time

• case / role

• conjugation

• person & number

• number

• gender

• declension

Now let's drill down on some properties.

Match the following roles to what they do.

• follows preposition and completes it

• instrument

• is used to accomplish the action

• direct object

• action / state of being of the sentence

• verb

• does the action / is in the state

• subject

• has the action done to it

• object of preposition

Read the following sentence:

Wind from the mountain attacks the ships with great noise.

Match the following parts of the sentence to the roles they're playing.

• direct object

• with great noise

• object of preposition

• the ships

• instrument

• mountain

• verb

• wind

• subject

• attacks

To have a direct object, a verb must be a(n) . . .

• action

• motion

• state of being

• occurrence

• surprise

Therefore, read the following sentence:

I am invisible.

Where is the direct object?

• I

• am

• invisible

• not there

Which of the following is not a case?

• nominative

• accusative

• ablative

• present

Which of the following roles uses the nominative case?

• subject

• direct object

• instrument

• object of preposition (ad, in [into], per)

• object of preposition (cum, in [in], pro)

Which of the following roles use the accusative case?

• subject

• direct object

• instrument

• object of preposition (ad, in [into], per)

• object of preposition (cum, in [in], pro)

Which of the following roles use the ablative case?

• subject

• direct object

• instrument

• object of preposition (ad, in [into], per)

• object of preposition (cum, in [in], pro)

Match the following first-declension endings to their case / number combinations.

• nom. sing.

• -ae

• abl.

• -am

• acc. pl.

• -a

• acc. sing.

• -ā / -īs

• nom. pl.

• -ās