Wheelock's Latin : Chapters 16-30 Lectures from Udemy

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We continue our work through the venerable Wheelock Latin text, Chapters 16-30, which is roughly the second semester of a college-level class, or a second year in high school.

I've created a series of lectures and downloadable study forms to help you keep on track.

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Summary

Third declension adjectives are just adjectives which use the third declension pattern of case endings. They don't modify only third declension nouns, any more than adjectives of the first and second declension can modify only nouns of the first and second declension. The ablative singular of the M/F gender constitutes the only departure from the standard i-stem third declension: it's -ī- rather than the expected -e-.

Third declension adjectives come in three categories: one, two or three terminations. As you'll see, this distinction applies only to the nominative singular.

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The relative pronoun acts like a subordinating conjunction, attaching an adjectival clause to something in the main clause of the sentence. As a pronoun, it agrees in number and gender with what it's pointing to, and gets its case from the way it's being used in its own clause.

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The passive voice indicates that the subject of a verb is receiving, rather than performing the action. In the present system of tenses in Latin, the passive voice is formed by replacing the active endings with the passive endings.

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The perfect system passive is formed from the fourth principal part of the verb with a conjugated form of the verb "sum" to indicate tense, person and number. The fourth principal part of a verb can also be called the "perfect passive participle." A participle is a verbal adjective, and hence will have a variable ending to allow it to agree with the noun that it is modifying.

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Interrogative adjectives modify nouns in such as way as to ask a questions about them; interrogative pronouns ask a question about something that has been left out. Adjective: "What book are you reading?" Pronoun: "What are you reading?" The forms of the interrogative adjective are identical to those of the relative pronoun. The forms of the interrogative pronoun differ from the relative pronoun only in a few forms in the singular.

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The theme vowel of fourth declension nouns is -ū-; like the third declension, it includes nouns of all three genders, though masculine is predominant.

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The passive voice of the present system of 3rd and 4th conjugations follow the same rules you learned for the 1st and 2nd conjugations:

present stem + tense signs + personal endings, active or passive

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A participle is a verbal adjective and has tense, voice, number, gender, and case. Latin has four participles, as seen in this paradigm:

The tense of the participle is relative to the tense of the main verb. Translating participles properly often requires promoting them to subordinate clauses or compressing them to a noun.

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It is helpful to begin the process of translating a participle by thinking first of its most basic meaning.

The tense of the participle is relative to the tense of the main verb. Translating participles properly often requires promoting them to subordinate clauses or compressing them to a noun.

Now that you've acquired new verbal forms, it's time to update your synopsis sheets. This file talks you through a couple of synopses for practice. (Apologies in advance for the rather poor quality.)

I've included below a downloadable synopsis sheet if you'd like to have one. The two files are the same: one's in Word and the other is a PDF.

Summary

The Ablative Absolute construction resembles the English absolute construction such as "that being said," or "all things being equal." These are participial phrases, with no finite verb, consisting of a noun or pronoun with a participle agreeing with it. As an "absolute," they stand outside of the grammar of the main clause of the sentence. In Latin, the pronoun or noun is in the ablative case and the participle agrees with it in number, gender, and case.

The Passive Periphrastic construction consists of the future passive participle used as a predicate, linked to the subject with a conjugated form of the verb "sum." It acquires an additional sense of obligation or necessity. The personal agent is expressed not with a/ab + ablative, but with the dative case alone.

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Latin possesses forms for the present, perfect, and future infinitives in both the active and passive voices:

A common use of the infinitive is in the accusative-infinitive construction to express indirect statement:

Dīxit sē ad castra mox venitūrum esse, he said that he would come to the camp soon.

I offer you this old file, done in the early years of office computers -- I'm not kidding -- where I take apart the sentences in great detail.

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Adjectives attribute a quality to a substantive, and they can do so in such a way that a comparison is either stated or implied with other substantives.

English
Positive Degree: blue, ragged
Comparative: bluer; more ragged
Superlative: blues; most ragged

Latin
Positive Degree: longus, -a, -um; fēlīx, -cis
Comparative Degree: longior, longius; fēlīcior, fēlīcius
Superlative Degree: longissimus, -a, -um; fēlīcissimus, -a, -um

The comparison in the comparative degree can be made either by using the adverb "quam" or with the Ablative of Comparison.

When the comparative degree is used absolutely in Latin, "rather" can be used in English instead of the comparative; when the superative degree is used absolutely in Latin, the adverbs "very" or "really" can be used in English instead of the superlative.

"Quam" can also be used with the superlative degree to mean "as X as possible," where "X" is the meaning of the adjective.

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Indirect Questions in Latin merely change the mood of the original question to the subjunctive. The subjunctive follows the Sequence of Tenses.

Summary

You're progressing nicely. You have all the forms of nouns and adjectives, you've seen all the conjugations and have started mastering the subjunctive mood. With just a couple more concepts, coming in the next ten chapters, you'll be ready to start reading "real" Latin authors.

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Core audience is those who have completed chapters 1-15 of the Wheelock textbook

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Write down Latin vocabulary words and their definitions on index cards or create a Quizlet set.
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Practice Latin Declensions

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Reinforces the declension patterns of nouns and adjectives by repeatedly applying them to form words in different cases.

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Use an online Latin declension tool to practice declining nouns and adjectives.
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As an Archivist, you will be responsible for preserving and managing historical documents. You may also be involved in research and public outreach. This course may be useful for a career as an Archivist by providing you with a foundation in the Latin language. Many historical documents are written in Latin, so being able to read and understand Latin can be a valuable asset in this field.

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