Latin III – End of Course
Study Guide
Basic Grammar Rules:
Identification of nouns for all five declensions
Verb stems used to create verb of for all four conjugation in all tenses – active &
passive voices
Identification of the indicative and imperative moods of verbs
Identification of the defective verb inquam
Identification of the irregular verbs: fio, fieri and fero, ferere
Identification of verbal infinitives in the three tenses – active & passive voice
Identification and translation of deponent verbs
Identification of participles in the three tenses – active & passive voices
Identification and translation of Ablative Absolutes
Identification of parts of speech – to include:
Objective/descriptive genitive
Partitive genitive
Comparisons with quam
Identification of prepositional phrases:
Ablative of manner
Ablative place from which
Ablative of comparison
Ablative of specification/respect
Ablative of time when
Ablative of time within which
Accusative of extent of space
Accusative of duration of time
Identification of formation of adverbs; 1st & 2nd declension versus 3rd
declension
Pronoun usage:
Relative clauses
Antecedent
Identification and use of the Locative Case
Identification and translation of cum clauses
Identification and translation of gerundives and passive periphrastics
Morphology:
Case endings of nouns in the first, second, third, fourth and fifth declensions
Verbs of all four conjugations in all six tenses; active and passive voices; indicative,
imperative and subjunctive moods
Imperative mood of the four conjugations of verbs
Adjectives of the first, second and third declensions
Adverbs from first, second and third declension adjectives
Pronouns: demonstratives, personal, relative, interrogatives, reflexive and
intensive
Comparison of adjectives and adverbs for the three declensions:
Positive
Comparative
Superlative
Sentence Translation:
Vocabulary
Application of grammar and morphology rules
Verbs Phrase Translations:
Vocabulary
English to Latin
Latin to English
Six tenses in both active and passive voices
Roman Culture:
Vocabulary Derivatives
Mottoes, phrases & abbreviations
Roman Numerals
Sight reading from Caesar’s De Bello Gallico
Sight reading from the Perseus myth