CLC Stage 12: Vesuvius erupts!

CLC Stage 12: Vesuvius erupts!

Throughout the CLC, you have been acquiring new verb endings

• Present tense (see right)

• All 'persons' (i.e. I, you, s/he, we, you, they)

Multiple Choice

Who is running along the road in the following Latin sentence?

iuvenes in via currunt

• THEY (young men)

• HE (a young man)

• WE (boys)

• YOU (PLURAL)

You have also learned the IMPERFECT tense

• Covers INCOMPLETE actions in the past

• Or CONTINUAL/ REPEATED actions in the past

• gladiatores spectabam

• I was watching the gladiators or I used to watch the gladiators

Multiple Choice

Best translation of the following....?

Marcus et Quartus in portu stabant

• Marcus and Quartus stand in the harbour

• Marcus and Quartus are standing in the harbour

• Marcus and Quartus stood in the port

• Marcus and Quartus were standing in the harbour

Finally, we have also encountered the PERFECT tense

• Completed actions in the past

• Use <VERB> + ED (e.g. I hurriED)

• Or 'I have <VERB>ED'

• e.g. forum circumspectavi

• I looked around the forum

Multiple Choice

Best translation of the following....?

nuntius multa verba dixit

• The messengers were saying many things

• The messenger spoke many words

• The messengers are saying many things

• The messengers said many words

Stage 12 introduces us to the YOU (PLURAL) and WE ENDINGS OF VERBS

• We've already met these at Ashville

• Look out for the '-MUS' and '-TIS' endings

Multiple Choice

Translate the following:

vos magnos sonos audivistis

• You (singular) heard lots of noises

• You (plural) heard huge noises

• We were listening to loud noises

• They heard loud noises

A quick note on PRONOUNS. For 'you (plural)' Latin uses 'VOS' and for 'we' it uses 'NOS'... BUT

• We don't actually need them

• vos pugnabatis

• The '-tis' ending ALONE tells us that 'you (plural)' were fighting

The V S U SS X rule for PERFECT tense verbs...

• Sometimes (not always) the PERFECT stem (i.e. the part of the verb that doesn't change) will end in one of these highlighted letters

• Use this to help select the '-ED' ending