BEN STEWART
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- Nouns, Adjectives, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections are the eight P_____ of S_______
- Parts of Speech
- the name of a person, place, thing, or idea
- Noun
- Names of particular persons and places are called ....
- Proper Nouns
- Nouns which are not Proper Nouns are called ...
- Common Nouns
- the name of a quality or idea: as, audácia, boldness; senectus, old age is known as ....
- Abstract Noun
- the name of a group, class, or the like: as, turba, crowd; exercitus, army is a .....
- Collective Noun
- a word that attributes a quality: as, bonus, good; fortis, brave, strong is an ...
- Adjective
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a word that attributes quality like an adjective, but, being derived from a verb, retains in some degree the power of the verb to assert: as,
Caesar, cónsul creátus,
Caesar having been elected consul,
is known as... - A Participle
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a word used to distinguish a person, place, thing, or idea without either naming or describing it:
is, he;
quí, who;
nos, we
is known as... - A Pronoun
- a word used to express the time, place, or manner of an assertion or attribute: as, gloriously or today is known as ...
- An Adverb
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a word which shows the relation between a noun or pronoun and some other word or words in the same sentence: as,
per agros ambulo,
I walk through the fields;
e pluribus unum,
one out of many
is known as a .... - A Preposition
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a word which connects words, or groups of words, like:
et, and;
sed, but
is known as a .... - A Conjunction
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exclamations such as
heus, halloo!
hercle! for Hercules
euge! hurray!
are known as - Interjections
- The Genders distinguished in Latin are three: M......, F........, and N......
- Masculine, Feminine, and Neuter
- Number
- Singular and Plural
- the case of the Subject of a sentence
- is the Nominative
- the case which express possession, and is translated as "of ..."
- The Genitive
- the case of the Indirect Object. It may usually be translated as "to or for ....".
- The Dative
- the case of the Direct Object of a verb
- The Accusative
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the case we translate as
from, by, with, in, at ... - The Ablative
- In names of towns and a few other words appear traces of another case denoting the place where: as, Rómae, at Rome; rúrí, in the country known as ....
- the Locative
- In Latin, as in English, there are three degrees of comparison: the P......, the C........., and the S...........
- the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative