Latin for Beginners eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 433 pages of information about Latin for Beginners.

Latin for Beginners eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 433 pages of information about Latin for Beginners.
or (in a question) his own whither alone wagon prize (noun) townsman master (owner) wretched carefulness ripe plenty war troops number plan (noun) my people free (adj.) beautiful children no (adj.) wall our grain battle weapon spear one food plow (verb) steadiness this or that fatherland already town helmet fort river camp zeal neither (of two) any much he agriculture son other slave the other (of two) your (singular) hard she booty woman frequent horse armed

508. Review Questions.  How many declensions are there?  What three things must be known about a noun before it can be declined?  What three cases of neuter nouns are always alike, and in what do they end in the plural?  What two plural cases are always alike?  When is the vocative singular not like the nominative?  What is a predicate noun?  With what does it agree?  What is an appositive?  Give the rule for the agreement of an appositive.  How can we tell whether a noun in -er is declined like puer\ or like ager\?  Decline bonus\, liber\, pulcher\.  How can we tell whether an adjective in -er is declined like liber\ or like pulcher\?  Why must we say nauta bonus\ and not nauta bona\?  Name the Latin possessive pronouns.  How are they declined?  With what does the possessive pronoun agree?  When do we use tuus\ and when vester\?  Why is suus\ called a reflexive possessive?  What is the non-reflexive possessive of the third person?  When are possessives omitted?  What four uses of the ablative case are covered by the relations expressed in English by with?  Give an illustration in Latin of the ablative of manner; of the ablative of cause; of the ablative of means; of the ablative of accompaniment.  What ablative regularly has cum\?  What ablative sometimes has cum\?  What uses of the ablative never have cum\?  Name the nine pronominal adjectives, with their meanings.  Decline alius\, nullus\.  Decline is\.  What does is\ mean as a demonstrative adjective or pronoun?  What other important use has it?

509. Fill out the following summary of the second declension: 

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