Our grammar lesson here continues with participles, those words that are verbs acting as adjectives too. They have only three tenses: present, perfect and future; in fact, the word future is a future tense participle in Latin. The principal parts of the verb 'to be' are 'sum, esse, fui, futurus' and the last principal part is a future participle. It means 'about to be' and is how the future participle is also translated.
Watch this video after looking over the list on page 185. Read the brief description on page 184 -- then watch this lesson. Pay attention to the description about the participles of deponent verbs.
Watch this video after looking over the list on page 185. Read the brief description on page 184 -- then watch this lesson. Pay attention to the description about the participles of deponent verbs.
Repeat the video if you must to understand the lesson. Then do this exercise:
Future Participles
If you feel you still need a participle review of all forms watch this lesson:
Future Participles
If you feel you still need a participle review of all forms watch this lesson:
This next exercise is for all three tenses of participles. Do this one and you will be in great shape for translation. Remember: participles flow into the Ablative Absolute grammar structure, so more is done with them than what we do in English.
All Participle Tenses
Learn the vocabulary on pages 183 and 184, then do these exercises:
Vocabulary
The culture lesson is about the famous poet, Ovid, who wrote the Metamorphoses. This video describes him and his work.
All Participle Tenses
Learn the vocabulary on pages 183 and 184, then do these exercises:
Vocabulary
The culture lesson is about the famous poet, Ovid, who wrote the Metamorphoses. This video describes him and his work.
This next video will give you a little idea of how studied the writing of Ovid was and it will give you an introduction to metrics or scansion of Latin poetry. Latin and Greek poetry was based on metrics or an internal beat pattern of the poem, ancient languages lend themselves to this very easily. English, and other modern languages, do not. Very little English is written in metrics, Shakespeare really was the last to do this in any extensive volume of literature. This next video will describe the complexity of Ovid and metrics in general.
Now read the Latin and translate it of pages 183 and 184. The story is an adaptation of Ovid's classic on Pyramus and Thisbe that inspired Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet.'
Always number your lines as translated for easy reference. You are doing great!
Vocabulary quiz:
Chapter 45 vocabulary quiz
Always number your lines as translated for easy reference. You are doing great!
Vocabulary quiz:
Chapter 45 vocabulary quiz