CLC Stage 21 word patterns: adjectives & adverbs

What part of speech are laetus/a/um, peritus/a/um, and stultissimus/a/um?

• adjective

• adverb

• noun

• verb

What part of speech are laete, perite, and stultissime?

• adjective

• adverb

• noun

• verb

So to turn an us/a/um adjective into an adverb, you take off the us/a/um and add...

So if the Latin for "cautious" is cautus/a/um, the Latin for "cautiously" is...

• cautus

• cauta

• cautum

• caute

If superbus/a/um = proud, then superbe =

crudelissimus​ (a)  

• very cruel
• cruel
• more cruel
• cruelly
• more cruelly
• very cruelly

Sort these words by part of speech:

Groups:

(a) adjectives

,

(b) adverbs

• gravissimum

• diligentissima

• callida

• intente

• tacite

• firme

• ignavus

• saevissime

Memor was a very h​ard (​ (a)   ) enslaver.

• durissimus
• durissime
• durior
• durus
• dure

The merchant always treated his customers honestly​ (a)   .

• probe
• probus
• probissimus
• probius
• probior

The senator very generously ​ (a)   ​ (b)   promised a large donation.

• liberalis
• liberaliter
• liberalior
• liberalissimus
• liberalissime