Chapter 51: Indirect Commands

What words signal an indirect command? (Select ALL correct answers.)

• a form of-- hortor,impero, invito, obsecro, oro, rogo, moneo, persuadeo, praecipio-- in the beginning

• ut/ne in the middle

• subjunctive verb at the end

• a form of -- tam, tantus, talis, sic, etc.

How can you tell an indirect command apart from a result clause?

• a result clause must have tam/tantus/talis/etc. in the beginning while an indirect command must have a verb like impero/hortor/praceipio/etc.

• an indirect command always starts with the word "cum"

• an indirect command must include a question word

• an indirect command will always be imperative in form

Form the subjunctive verb: I had believed

• crederem

• crediderim

• credo

• credidissem

Form the subjunctive verb: they are

• erant

• sunt

• sint

• essent

Form the subjunctive verb: we were trying

• conati essemus

• conaremur

• conatae simus

• conemur

Translate: Cornelius coquo imperavit ut in culina maneret.

• Cornelius orders the cook to stay in the kitchen.

• Cornelius ordered the cook to stay in the kitchen.

• The cook was ordered by Cornelius to stay in the kitchen.

• Cornelius thought that the cook should stay in the kitchen.

Translate: Puellas monui ne in silva ambularet quod multi lupi sub arboribus dormiebant.

• I warn that girls should not walk in the woods where many wolves sleep under the trees.

• The girls were warned to not walk in the woods because many wolves were sleeping under the tree.

• I warn the girls not to walk in the woods because many wolves are sleeping under the trees.

• I warned the girls not to walk in the woods because many wolves were sleeping under the trees.

Translate : Si dies calidus est, noli nos hortari ut in agris laboremus.

• If the day is hot, don't urge us to work in the fields.

• Don't urge us to work in the fields because the day is hot.

• You urge us to work in the fields although the day is hot.

• If the day is hot, never urge us to work in the field.

Translate: Cowardly Sextus begs the very large wolf not to eat him.

• Ignavus lupus Sextum maximum orat ne se edat.

• Ignavus Sextus lupos maximos orat ut se edat.

• Ignavus Sextus lupum maximum orat ne se edat.

• Molestus Sextus lupum magnum orat ne se edat.

Translate: The teacher was instructing the students to read many books.

• Discipuli magistrum praecipiebant ut multos libros legeret.

• Magister discipulos praecipiebat ut multos libros legerent.

• Magister discipulos praecipit ut multos libros legant.

• Magister discipulum praecipiebat ut magnos libros legeret.