General Grammar

Comprehensive Review Activity

This activity is for Latin 1 students and covers material up to chapter 7 in Ecce Romani. This is an ungraded review activity. A link to an answer key can be found below.

I. Define the following:

1. Noun	_____________________________________
2. Verb	_____________________________________
3. Adjective	_____________________________________

II. Parts of Speech Recognition

Circle the nouns, underline the verbs and bracket the adjectives. Draw line to to connect any adjective with the noun it modifies.

Baiae is a city south of Rome where the Cornelian family spends their summers. The Cornelian family has two children, Cornelia and Marcus. Cornelia has a friend in a neighboring farmhouse. Her name is Flavia. The girls enjoy walking in the fields or sitting under a tree, reading and writing.

III. Singular and Plural Nominative and Accusative Forms

Give the case, number and gender (nominative or accusative; singular or plural; masculine, feminine or neuter) for the following forms:

1. puerum	_____________________________________
2. puellas	_____________________________________
3. pater	_____________________________________
4. epistulae	_____________________________________
5. princeps	_____________________________________
6. arborem	_____________________________________
7. nuntii	_____________________________________
8. senatores	_____________________________________

IV. Nouns: Nominative vs. Accusative

Nominative - Used if the noun is the subject of a sentence or as a predicate nominative with a linking verb, such as "to be"

Accusative - Used if a noun is the direct object of a transitive verb or as an object of a preposition.

Activity - Look again at the passage above. List all the nouns from the passage that are in the nominative or accusative case. (Nota bene: just list the nouns that are either the subject or direct object. Ignore nouns in prepositonal phrases for now.)

V. Gender of Nouns

Fill in the blank:

1. The gender of *most* first declension nouns is	_____________________________________
2. The gender of *most* second declension nouns is	_____________________________________

VI. Cases and Declensions

Define each term:

1. Case	_____________________________________
2. Declension	_____________________________________

VII. Third-person Verbs: Singular and Plural

Determine whether the verb in each of the following sentences as singular or plural. Also give the subject of the verb:

1. Sextus Corneliam vexat.	S	P	Subject ____________________________
2. Cornelius et Aurelia in villa habitant.	S	P	Subject ____________________________
3. Cornelia est puella Romana.	S	P	Subject ____________________________
4. Davus est Servus Britannicus.	S	P	Subject ____________________________
5. Syra et Thressa sunt ancillae.	S	P	Subject ____________________________
6. Ad rivum descendit lupus.	S	P	Subject ____________________________
7. In agris currunt	S	P	Subject ____________________________
8. Puellae laetae sub arbore legunt.	S	P	Subject ____________________________

Answer Key - Check your work.

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