Grammar Handouts #1 - Nouns, Adjectives, and Verbs
Readings
Read through these short selections on the key characteristics of nouns, adjectives, and verbs:
If you feel the need to review morphology for any substantive or verbal forms, use the paradigm charts linked here.
Exercises
NB: You will have to look at the dictionary to complete these exercises. As you will see from your reading, the dictionary entry is essential to figuring out how verbs, nouns, and adjectives work.
A. Change the voice of these verbal forms from active to passive, holding all the other characteristics the same.
- dubitat
- antecēdat
- cōnservāvit
- indigēret
- dēstiterit
B. Change the tenses of these verbal forms to the pluperfect, holding all the other characteristics the same.
- dubitat
- antecēdat
- cōnservāvit
- indigēret
- dēstiterit
C. Change the mood of these verbal forms (if it is subjunctive, make it indicative; if it is indicative, make it subjunctive), holding all the other characteristics the same.
- dubitat
- antecēdat
- cōnservāvit
- indigēret
- dēstiterit
D. What broader observations can you draw from these transformations?
E. Change the number of these noun-adjective pairs (if it is singular, make it plural; if it is plural, make it singular.)
- omnēs gentēs
- cēterōs imperātōrēs
- cūnctās nātiōnēs
- odium paternum
F. Change the case of these noun-adjective pairs to the genitive, keeping the number of the pair the same.
- omnēs gentēs
- cēterōs imperātōrēs
- cūnctās nātiōnēs
- odium paternum
G. Change the case of these noun-adjective pairs to the dative, keeping the number of the pair the same.
- omnēs gentēs
- cēterōs imperātōrēs
- cūnctās nātiōnēs
- odium paternum