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MSHDLG
Mrs. Schearer's handy dandy latin grammar
Question | Answer |
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NOM Subject | Subject of the sentence. -Marcus sententiam scribit. |
NOM Predicate Nominitive | Where the noun of the predicate is the same person/thing as the subject. Used with esse, appellatur, dicitur, habetur, nominatur, etc.,creatus est, fit, videtur, and others -Marcus puer improbus est. -Mare tranquillum fit. -Iupiter maximus deus habetur. |
ACC Direct Object | Receiver of the action of the verb. -Marcus Iuliam pulsat. |
ACC Double Accusative | Verbs of making, choosing, calling, teaching and asking. -Diodorus pueros litteres docet. -Icarus deos auxilium interrogat. -Americani hoc mare "Mediterraneum" appellant. |
ACC Length of Time and Space | How long, wide, and high something is. |
ACC Place to Which | ad or in = into -Iulius ad villam it. -Marcus in atrium intrat. Nota bene: Omit the preposition with names of towns, small island, domus, humus and rus. |
ACC Exclamation | Almost like swearing, definitly NOT like the Vocative. -Diodorus: "O pueros improbos!" -Mercator: "Heu me miserum!" |
ACC Subject of an Infinitive | in an indirect statement: Medicus puerum dormire dicit. putat, audit, videt, gaudet, etc. |
ACC Subject of Impersonal verbs | pudet, paenitet and piget -Nonne te pudet? ("doesn't IT shame you?") -Me paenitet ("It repents me = I'm sorry") -Eum piget ("It grieves him = He is sorry") |
ACC object of Prepositions | inter, prope, ante, post, apud, per, supra, infra, ob, contra, circum, praeter, propter, adversus, extra, intra, iuxta, super. |