Cambridge Preterm Latin language pack

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As far as dictionaries go, we strongly recommend C. T. Lewis’ Elementary Latin Dictionary, though Penguin, Collins and Cassells produce good ones as well. “Lewis and Short’s” old and very large Latin Dictionary remains a valuable resource; the research standard today is the huge Oxford Latin Dictionary. Lewis and Short can be downloaded to an iPhone for just over a pound (it’s called “Lexidium” in the Apple App Store—look also for the Greek dictionary “Lexiphanes”: that’s the research-standard Latin lexicon by Lewis and Short; similar resources are available for Android phones as well). You will find in this pack: • a checklist of grammatical topics • a vocabulary list • paradigms, etc. • a list of verb principal parts Good luck with your studies and see you soon!
checklist of grammar topics for Latin students On arriving at Cambridge you will be assessed on the following topics. The assessment will fall into four parts (in each part you will be given some choice): Section A: Vocabulary: you will be expected to know the vocbulary of the AS Level list (supplied here) Section B: Accidence: you will be expected to write down from memory any word-table (or paradigm) of any word supplied in the pack (you will not be tested on archaic forms) Section C: Principal Parts: you will be expected write down from memory the principal parts of the verbs in the list included in this pack Section D: Syntax: you will be expected to translate from Latin into English a few sentences that exhibit the points of syntax as specified below The assessment will take form as an hour-long online test. Many elements of the test will be generated randomly by computer, so each test will be unique. Some elements will be very simple and some will be more challenging. The test will be marked out of 100 points and only you and your Director of Studies will be given the results. The test is merely designed as a diagnostic tool and will not count towards any final mark or grade at all. adjectives and nouns, etc. • understanding of gender, case, and number in nouns and adjectives • noun and adjective declension of all five patterns of the words that appear in the AS vocabulary list • form and use of demonstratives • form and use of personal, reflexive, and relative pronouns • form and use of comparatives, including irregulars • form and use of gerunds and gerundives verbs • understanding of the formation and function of person, number, tense, voice and mood in verbs • understanding of verbal ‘aspect’ • conjugation of regular verbs in all tenses, voices and moods, including participles and infinitives (supplied in pack) • conjugation of the main irregular verbs in in all tenses, voices and moods, including participles and infinitives (supplied in pack) syntax • understanding of case usage and prepositions (documents supplied in pack) • constructions with comparative expressions • form and use of participles, including participles used adverbially (= circumstantially or predicatively) • understanding of verbs that take infinitives , e.g. uolo • understanding of independent mood usage, such as potential, deliberative and contrafactual subjunctives • understanding of the sequence of tenses • understanding of indirect speech, command and question structures • a general understanding of the variety of subordinate clauses in Latin (documents supplied in pack) N.B. The tables and documents are meant to be fairly comprehensive and of use for future reference (e.g. when reading poetic and archaic texts). Sometimes long marks (macra ¯) and short marks (breuia ˘) have been printed over vowels as an aid in distinguishing certain elements; in some paradigms such marks are given in the leading word only. Note too that U is employed for V throughout: this is standard scholarly Latin practice today and will be found in the University exams.
Page 1: Cambridge Preterm Latin language pa
Page 5 and 6: Latin adjectives: eight key paradig
Page 7 and 8: Latin adverbs (Kennedy §§85a-87 &
Page 9 and 10: table of Latin correlative pronouns
Page 11 and 12: case usage in Ancient Greek and Lat
Page 13 and 14: INDICATIVE 1st conjugation 2nd conj
Page 15 and 16: INDICATIVE possum uol! n!l! m"l! pr
Page 17 and 18: 1. COORDINATING (some are conjuncti
Page 19 and 20: 50 nascor nasc" (3) n&tus sum be bo
Page 21 and 22: ibo bibere bibi bonus bona bonum br
Page 23 and 24: ergo (indeclinable) erro errare err
Page 25 and 26: lacrimo lacrimare lacrimavi laedo l
Page 27 and 28: orior oriri ortus sum orno ornare o
Page 29 and 30: espondeo respondere respondi respon
Page 31: vendo vendere vendidi venditus veni

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