8-27-2015

Today we talked about word order in proper Latin sentences.

First we started out by talking about parts of speech.  There are 3 parts of speech that we are currently interested in:

• noun - a person, place, thing, or idea
• verb - an action word or a state of being
• adjective - a describing word; tells what kind, which one, or how many

The rules for forming sentences are pretty simple: they are outlined on this worksheet, with the exercise on the bottom completed in the picture below.  If you look at the sentences in the picture, they follow each of the rules identified on the top of the worksheet.

These sentences are pretty easy, but it is the first step toward us being able to translate sentences from English to Latin.  As our first foray into the world of translating, we did some cut and paste sentences. This worksheet has four English sentences, and this page has all the Latin words needed to translate those four sentences.  The idea is to cut up the words and rearrange them to create the sentences, with good word order.  It should look something like this (with cut-up words, of course):

We turned in these sentences for a grade.

After we finished these sentences, we completed a short worksheet, found here, that was also turned in for a grade.  We completed exercise 1B, 1C, and 1D.