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Students who have taken one or two years of high-school Latin should consider enrolling in Latin 124. Taught every year in the Spring term (and sometimes in the Fall term, as well), this course introduces more advanced syntax and reading strategies. At the end of this course, students have learned all of the basic morphology (forms) of Latin nouns, verbs, and adjectives and have dealt with the most common constructions.
Latin 124 (Elementary Latin II) where Latin 123 leaves off continues study from Chapter 16 to the end of Shelmerdine’s Introduction to Latin (2nd ed).
To begin your study with Latin 124, you should be fully comfortable with most of the following:
FORMS (MORPHOLOGY)
Finding the stem and knowing the declension of nouns and adjectives.
The meaning and use of the four principal parts of verbs.
Conjugation of all regular verbs (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 3rd -io conjugations) and the irregular verbs sum and possum in all six tenses of the indicative, active and passive.
Creating the present and perfect infinitives, active and passive.
Creating imperatives, active and passive.
Declension of first, second, and third declension nouns in all cases and numbers.
Declining adjectives of the first-second and third declensions.
Declension of numerals.
How to decline the following pronouns: personal pronouns (ego, tu, nōs, vōs); demonstrative pronouns (hic, haec, hoc and ille, illa, illud); is, ea, id; reflexive pronouns (sē); and relative pronoun (qui, quae, quod).
GRAMMAR AND SYNTAX
The parts of speech
Understanding Latin dictionary entries.
Understanding that Latin produces meaning through case and word endings rather than word order.
What are declensions and conjugations?
Agreement between nouns and adjectives.
Agreement between subjects and verbs.
Active and passive voice.
Agent of a passive verb.
Use of adjectives as substantives.
Conjunctions — coordinating and subordinating.
Latin word order.
“Gapping” (items understood from context)
The basic uses of Latin noun cases:
Nominative for subject, predicate nominative, and predicate adjective.
Genitive of possession, partitive genitive, subjective genitive, and objective genitive.
Dative of indirect object, reference (interest), possession, and with particular adjectives and verbs.
Accusative as Direct Object, object of prepositions, and in time expressions.
Ablative of means, personal agent, object of prepositions, manner, accompaniment.
Vocative for direct address.
Uses of infinitive and imperative verbs
Relative Clauses
READING SKILLS
Using expectations to predict sentence elements that must be there.
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