Homework for Tuesday: handout on verb conjugation. Click here for a link to the handout.

National Latin Exam will still be on Wednesday. If you are attending Henry's memorial service, please talk to me so that we can figure out another option. Thanks!!

Homework for Monday:
1) Final Draft of "Always Tomorrow" in Chapter24
2) Read the handout on Hercules by Edith Hamilton
     Here is a link to the Hercules handout

Your homework for Thursday, 3/6, is to translate the whole story, "Always Tomorrow" - the story in Chapter 24. There will be some new verb tenses to translate but you will find them in the glossary. This chapter covers the pluperfect tense ("I had seen") and the future perfect tense ("I will have seen").

Remember, your homework for Monday is to conjugate 4 verbs from chapter 23, each one in all 4 tenses. (scroll down to Friday's post)

We also have a chapter test on Tuesday, March 4. Click here for some practice work with verb forms. Click here for the answers. I will try to add more during the weekend.

The National Latin Exam will be held on Wed., March 12, during tutorial in Room 101.

You have received a handout on the demonstrative pronouns/adjectives hic, haec, hoc and ille, illa, illud. The next chart,which has many similarities, is for relative pronouns: quī, quae, quod. Relative pronouns are, in English, this, that, which, whose, who, etc. Here are some sentences, in English, using relative pronouns:

1) My father, whose birthday is tomorrow, will be away.

2) The book that you lent me is really good.

3) Did you see my friend, who is wearing a pink sweater?

Each sentence contains a main clause and a relative clause (a subordinate clause beginning with a relative pronouns)

1) Main clause: My father will be away.
    Relative clause: whose birthday is tomorrow.
    Relative pronoun: whose, replacing my father with a genitive, to show possession. In Latin, a masculine, singular, genitive pronoun would be used, because it replaces one male (my father) and shows possession (of a birthday).

2) Main clause: The book is really good.
     Relative clause: that you lent me
    Relative pronoun: that, replacing book with an accusative to show direct object. In Latin, a masculine, singular, accusative pronoun would be used, because it replaces one male object (book) and is the direct object of lent.

3) Main clause: Did you see my friend?
    Relative clause: who is wearing a pink sweater
    Relative pronoun: who, replacing my friend with a nominative to show a subject. In Latin, a feminine, singular, nominative would be used, because it replaces one female (my friend) and is the subject of wearing.

Click here for a chart of the relative pronouns.
Click here for lots of examples of Latin usage and lots of practice translations. Here are the answers.

Your homework for Monday: pick 4 different verbs from chapter 23, then conjugate them in the present, imperfect, perfect and future tenses. "Conjugate" = give all 6 forms for that particular tense.

Here's an example, from sum, esse

Present Tense:
sum             sumus
es                estis
est               sunt

Imperfect Tense:
eram           eramus
eras             eratis
erat             erant

Future Tense:
ero              erimus
eris             eritis
erit              erunt

Perfect Tense:
fui               fuimus
fuisti           fuistis
fuit              fuērunt

Your homework for Thursday is a handout on the future tense. Click here for a copy.