BENEFIT
1- You will be able to understand the role of verbs and how mood and tenses can refer to past, present or future actions in a definitive manner or one expressing conditions, possibility or even command.
2- You will gain a better understanding of inflectional languages and how to conjugate a verb. Verb identification is of the uttermost importance for understanding the structure of a sentence and put into the right context the cases that are present in the sentence.
3- This section will probably be quite tedious, but it is essential study. The pattern of the conjugation for each tense is the same regardless of the root verb. But you meed to know them. Follow the example given in Lesson 1 for memorising the First Declension by writing it on scrap paper.
4- Formally go through the worked example of how to perform Logic Analysis when translating from Latin. I recommend that you learn this technicque as it will be even more necessary as you come across more complex sentences. By following this pattern you will be able to translate from English into Latin correctly.
5- You will learn how to decline adjectives and practice their declension. Do the Exercise 2 now or anytime after the next section on the Translation Exercise.
6- In this exercise, you begin to read a continuous piece of Latin composition broken up in small clauses. The focus is on comprehension and the applied method of doing logic analysis to understand the correct function of each word within the sentence. You will find this method very beneficial in order to use the right cases.
7- Enjoy the first part of Act 1 of the play. While I was translating it, I made the remarkable discovery explained in note 2: remarkable, from a palaeographic standpoint.
8- Finally enjoy more Latin Literature from Lucretius.