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Part 1 - Lesson 1
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PART 1 - LESSON 2 MODULE

 

ACTION

 

1- Read the introduction and learn the types of verbs: their meaning in terms of Mood, Tense, Person and Number. 

 

2- Move to the Verb Example page and study the conjugation pattern for the Indicative Mood.  Just three tenses for now: Present, Simple Past (imperfect) and Simple Future. 

 

3- Next study the Verb Practice page and learn the conjugation paradigm for each of the three tenses as well as that of the verb "to be". 

 

4- When yoou feel comfortable with your verbs move to the Second Declension, more hard work, but essential.  Once you get over this other hurdle, the path gets easier. 

 

5- When you feel comfortable with verbs and First and Second Declensions, as well as adjectives, move to the Translation Exercise page.

 

6- Next move to the Play Translation and enjoy another Latin Reading written by the playwriter Plautus back in 250 B.C. 

 

7- Finally, enjoy reading a piece of Latin literature taken from the first chapter of Lucretius's: De Rerum Naturae, the first 40 lines. 

 

 

PART 1 - LESSON 2 MODULE

 

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. You need 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- In this exercise you begin to read a continuous piece of Latin composition broken up in small clauses. The focus is on comprehension and analysis of the syntax. 

 

6- 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. 

 

7- Finally enjoy more Latin Literature from Lucretius.