This activity is for Latin 1 students and covers material up to chapter 7 in Ecce Romani. This is an ungraded review activity. A link to an answer key can be found below.
Give yourself credit if your definitions cover the main points in these definitions.
| 1. Noun | A part of speech which is used to name a person, place, thing, quality or action. |
| 2. Verb | A word used to indicate action, existence or occurrence. |
| 3. Adjective | A word used to qualify or express an attribute of another noun. |
Circle the nouns, underline the verbs and bracket the adjectives. Draw line to to connect any adjective with the noun it modifies.
Baiae is a city south of Rome where the Cornelian family spends their summers. The Cornelian family has two children, Cornelia and Marcus. Cornelia has a friend in a neighboring farmhouse. Her name is Flavia. The girls enjoy walking in the fields or sitting under a tree, reading and writing.
Color code: NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE
Give the case, number and gender (nominative or accusative; singular or plural; masculine, feminine or neuter) for the following forms:
| 1. puerum | accusative masculine singular |
| 2. puellas | accusative feminine plural |
| 3. pater | nominative masculine singular |
| 4. epistulae | nominative feminine plural |
| 5. princeps | nominative masculine singular |
| 6. arborem | accusative feminine singular |
| 7. nuntii | nominative masculine plural |
| 8. senatores | nominative OR accusative masculine plural |
Nominative - Used if the noun is the subject of a sentence or as a predicate nominative with a linking verb, such as "to be"
Accusative - Used if a noun is the direct object of a transitive verb or as an object of a preposition.
Activity - Look again at the passage above. List all the nouns from the passage that are in the nominative or accusative case. (Nota bene: just list the nouns that are either the subject or direct object. Ignore nouns in prepositonal phrases for now.)
Fill in the blank:
| 1. The gender of most first declension nouns is | feminine |
| 2. The gender of most second declension nouns is | masculine |
Define each term (Give yourself credit if your definitions cover the main points in these definitions):
| 1. Case | A case is the form of noun or adjective used to show its relationship to other words in a sentence. |
| 2. Declension | Nouns or adjectives grouped together by similarity of inflection (endings). |
Determine whether the verb in each of the following sentences as singular or plural. Also give the subject of the verb:
| 1. Sextus Corneliam vexat. | S | P | Sextus |
| 2. Cornelius et Aurelia in villa habitant. | S | P | Cornelius et Aurelia |
| 3. Cornelia est puella Romana. | S | P | Cornelia |
| 4. Davus est Servus Britannicus. | S | P | Davus |
| 5. Syra et Thressa sunt ancillae. | S | P | Syra et Thressa |
| 6. Ad rivum descendit lupus. | S | P | lupus |
| 7. In agris currunt | S | P | They (implied by currunt - they run) |
| 8. Puellae laetae sub arbore legunt. | S | P | Puellae |
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