WorksheetsLatin for Children A Catechism Quiz
Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 31mins
Verbs are...
People, places, things, ideas
Actions and states of being
Words that modify or describe nouns
Words that replace a noun
Nouns are...
People, places, things, and ideas
Actions and states of being
Words that modify or describe nouns
Words that replace nouns
Pronouns are...
People, places, things, and ideas
Actions and states of being
Words that describe or modify nouns
Words that replace nouns
Why are the principal parts of a Latin verb important? Select all that apply.
Each one shows us how to make other forms of the verb.
We get the stem by looking at the principal parts.
We know what identities a verb has by looking at its principal parts.
We know what conjugation a verb is a part of by looking at the principal parts.
Put the principal parts of a Latin verb in the correct order.
Present
Infinitive
Perfect
Passive Participle/Supine
An action verb tells what the subject is ______, linking verb tells what the subject _______.
1) being, 2) does
1) doing, 2) thinks
1) doing, 2) is
1) acting like, 2) is connected to
A Transitive verb is a type of action verb that takes a/an ______.
predicate nominative
object
While we (a) verbs, we (b) nouns.
What are the three identities of a Latin verb?
Person, number, and tense
Gender, number, and case
Case, number, and tense
Person, number, and gender
Match the following verb identities to the question they ask.
Person
Who is doing the action of the verb?
Number
How many people are doing the action of the verb?
Tense
When is the action taking place?
What are the options for the person of a verb?
Singular and plural
Nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative
1st, 2nd, and 3rd
Feminine, Masculine, Neuter
What the options for the number of a verb or noun?
1st, 2nd, or 3rd
Singular or plural
Nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative
Present, imperfect, future
Match the following tenses to the time when the actions take place.
Present
Actions happening right now
Imperfect
Ongoing, continuous actions happening in the past
Future
Actions that have not happened yet
How do you find the stem of a verb?
You get the stem or the base from the genitive case.
Take off the -o from the first principal part.
Take off the -re from the second principal part, the infinitive.
Take off the -ae from the second principal part.
What are the three characteristics of a Latin noun?
Person, number, and tense
Person, number, and case
Gender, number, and tense
Gender, number, and case
Match the following noun identities with what they tell us about the noun.
Gender
What endings the noun will take
Number
How many nouns there are
Case
What job the noun has in the sentence
Which case forms of a Latin noun are listed in a dictionary?
Nominative singular and plural
Genitive singular and plural
Nominative singular and genitive singular
Accusative and Ablative singular
Match the following noun identities to their options:
Gender
Masculine, feminine, and neuter
Number
Singular and plural
Case
Nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative
How do you find the stem of a noun?
Take off the -re from the second principal part, the infinitive
You get the stem or the base from the genitive case.
You get the stem or the base from the nominative case.
Take off the -o from the first principal part.
What gender are most first declension nouns?
Feminine
Masculine
Neuter
What gender/s are most second declension nouns?
Feminine
Masculine
Neuter
An irregular verb is a verb that....
Does not follow the normal conjugation patterns for verbs.
Has an unusual stem
Translates differently from other verbs
Takes nouns endings instead of verb endings
The neuter rule states that for all neuter nouns....
The nominative and accusative are exactly the same.
The dative and ablative are exactly the same.
The nominative and accusative plural usually end in a short -a.
The genitive and accusative are exactly the same.
What does a preposition do?
Describes or modifies a noun.
Replaces a noun in order to avoid repetition.
Connects a noun or pronoun to the rest of the sentence.
Names a person, place, thing, or idea.
In what cases are Prepositions a part of the English translation of a Latin word?
Nominative
Genitive
Dative
Accusative
Ablative
Which of the following describe a sentence?
A group of words that makes a complete thought.
Contains a subject.
Contains a direct object.
Contains a verb.
What does the subject do in a sentence?
Connects a noun or pronoun to the rest of the sentence.
Renames the noun doing the action.
Receives the action of the verb.
The action of the verb.
Match the following noun cases to their jobs in the sentence:
Nominative
Subject noun and predicate nominative
Accusative
Direct object and object of the preposition
Ablative
Object of the preposition
What is the job of the predicate nominative?
Does the action of the verb.
Receives the action of the verb.
Renames the subject.
Describes or modifies a noun.
With what type of verb is the predicate nominative used?
Transitive verb
Intransitive verb
Linking verb
What is an adjective?
An action or a state of being
A person, place, thing, or idea
A word that replaces a noun
A word that describes or modifies a noun
What three questions might an adjective answer?
How?
What kind?
How many?
Which one?
Which word in a sentence does the predicate adjective describe?
Predicate nominative
Subject noun
Direct object
Object of the preposition
In which three ways must an adjective agree with the noun it is modifying?
Gender
Person
Number
Case
Match the following sentence patterns to their correct parts:
Sentence Pattern A
Subject noun and a verb
Sentence Pattern B
Subject noun, linking verb, predicate nominative
Sentence Pattern C
Subject noun, linking verb, predicate adjective
Sentence Pattern D
Subject noun, verb transitive, direct object
What does it mean to parse a word?
To identify all of its parts.
To say what job it has in the sentence.
To list it out with all of its endings.
To say what a word means in English.
Which of the following are 1st declension masculine noun exceptions?
poēta, -ae
agricola, -ae
incola, incolae
nauta, nautae
What is the object of the preposition?
The noun that does the action of the verb.
The noun that receives the action of a verb.
The noun that renames the subject.
The noun that is connected to the rest of the sentence by a preposition.
In addition to the preposition and an object of the preposition, what else might we find in a prepositional phrase?
Verb
Adjective
Adverb
Article adjective
What is a direct object?
The noun that does the action of the verb.
The noun that receives the action of the verb.
The noun that renames the subject.
The noun that is connected to the rest of the sentence by a preposition.
What two parts of speech frequently combine in Latin to make a compound word?
Nouns and verbs
Nouns and adjectives
Verbs and prepositions
Nouns and prepositions
