Parsing verbs

Parsing verbs

with

person, number, and tense

When you parse a verb, you give the person, number, and tense.

• Person = 1st, 2nd, or 3rd, depending on which row of the chart the ending is on. It's the point of view of the verb - who is doing the verb.

• Number = singular or plural. Again, it's who's doing the verb. You can tell whether the ending is in the left or right column.

• Tense = there will be different endings used for different tenses. This is the time when the verb happens - now, sometime in the past, or sometime in the future.

Open Ended

You know these as the verb endings - but really, they are only the present tense verb endings. So, when you parse, anytime you have a verb with one of these six endings, you'll say the tense is

Multiple Select

Check which one of these is the present tense verb endings chant:

Notice how the rows are labeled with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person? That's how you answer the "person" part of parsing - 1st, 2nd, or 3rd.

Notice how the columns are labeled with singular and plural? That's how you answer the "number" part of parsing - singular or plural.

Let's try it! Remember, parsing (for now!) is person, number, and tense.

Multiple Choice

What is the person of spectat?

• 1st

• 2nd

• 3rd

• singular

Multiple Choice

What is the number of spectat?

• 1st

• 3rd

• plural

• singular

Multiple Choice

What is the tense of spectat? (yes, these really are all tenses! You just haven't learned them all yet.)

• present

• imperfect

• perfect

• future

The next several slides will have verbs. You parse them on your own and click to the next slide to see the answer.

habēmus

habēmus is 1st person (top row ending), plural (right side column) and present tense.

habēs

habēs is 2nd person (middle row ending), singular (left side column) and present tense.

sum

Yes, "being" verbs are still verbs and they can still be parsed! The "being" verb chant is the same structure as the verb endings chants.

sum is 1st person (top row), singular (left side column) and present tense.

Multiple Select

Select the chart that is the "being" verb. We are going to start calling it the present tense "being" verb! Notice how the setup is the same, organized by person and number.

Multiple Select

Now you can parse any verb using these charts! It could be the "being" verb or any verb that has present tense verb endings. You just use the grid setup of the chant. Select the chart that has the present tense verb endings.

Multiple Choice

One last practice slide: use the grid structure to imagine the endings in place and select the correct person and number. Parse the verbs: est, salutat, portātis, vident, clamō, surgimus.

Answers:

• est = 3rd person, singular, present

• salutat = 3rd person, singular, present

• portātis = 2nd person, plural, present

• vident = 3rd person, plural, present

• clamō = 1st person, singular, present

• surgimus = 1st person, plural, present