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Chapter 2: . ACCUSATIVE Case. What IS a direct object?. Direct objects are nouns that receive the action of the verb. It answers the question WHAT? Or WHOM? after the verb. The men love FOOTBALL . Men is the subject. Love is the verb. The men love WHAT? Football is the direct object.
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Chapter 2: ACCUSATIVE Case
What IS a direct object? • Direct objects are nouns that receive the action of the verb. It answers the question WHAT? Or WHOM? after the verb. • The men love FOOTBALL. • Men is the subject. Love is the verb. • The men love WHAT? Football is the direct object.
Try this: • The kicker kicked the field goal. • The kicker kicked what? • The direct object is field goal.
ID the direct objects. • 1. Jojo had an operation. • 2. We visited Pennsylvania. • 3. Jim Bob plays the guitar. • 4. Mary lost her car. • 5. Why didn’t Nancy cook dinner? • 6. Stupid people laugh at others.
Write in Latin. • 1. The girls like the island.
ADJECTIVES • They agree with (match) the noun they modify in 3 ways: • 1. case • 2. gender • 3. number
How they look in vocab list: • Adjectives have 3 forms in the vocab list. • The 1st is masculine. • The 2nd is feminine. • The 3rd is neuter.
Case • If the noun is nominative then so is the adjective. • Via est dura. • The road is hard. • Puella est parva. • The girl is small.
Number • If noun is plural the adjective is too. • Puellae sunt bonae. • The girls are good. • Viae sunt durae. • The roads are hard.
Case • The girls carry good water. • Puellae portant aquam bonam. • The good girls carry water. • Puellae bonae portant aquam.
Translate each. • 1. Vita est bona. • 2. Fama est non bona. • 3. Viae sunt durae. • 4. Durae viae sunt. • 5. Parvae puellae portant aquam. • 6. Puellae aquam bonam portant. • 7. Australia est magna insula. • 8. Familiae sunt magnae.
Chapter 3 • VERBS: • There are action verbs like kick, climb, hit, eat, etc. These use a direct object. • There are intransitive verbs like est and sunt that will never use a direct object. The verb to be uses a predicate nominative.
Verbs • Verbs have tense: present, past and future. • Verbs have number: singular & plural. • Verbs have person: 1st, 2nd ,3rd.
VERB CHART • Sg pl. • 1 • 2 • 3
English pronouns • Sg. Pl. • I 1st we • You 2nd you • He 3rd they • She • it
Latin • Sg. Pl. • -o, -m = I -mus = we • -s =you -tis = you • -t = he,she,it -nt = they
Forming a verb • 1. find the PRESENT STEM: • Porto, portare--- drop –re and what’s left is the present stem. • PORTA- is the stem
PRESENT STEM • Amo, amare • Stem: ama- • Laboro, laborare • Stem: labora-
WHO CARES? • Latin scholars do because you must use the present stem to form the PRESENT TENSE of a Latin verb. • Let’s conjugate (change the endings) amo in the present tense.
Present tense • Sg. • 1st amo I love, I am loving, I do love • 2nd amas you love, you do love, you are loving • 3rd amat he loves, she loves, it loves • He is loving, she does like, it likes
Present tense • Plural • 1 amamus we love, we like • 2 amatis you love, like • 3 amant they love, like
Conjugate a verb. • Conjugate laboro
Laboro-present tense • Laboro I work • Laboras you work • Laborat he works • Laboramus we work • Laboratis you work • Laborant they work