Grammer Terms
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- Implied Subject
- if the subject is not directly stated but needs to be supplied from the ending of the verb
- Indirect Object
- for whom or to whom the action is done
- Stem
- the form of the verb without its endings
- Dependent clause
- A group of words with a subject (expressed or implied) and verb that does not express a complete thought
- Dative
- the case of the indirect object
- Invariable
- a word is called invariable or indeclinable if it never changes
- Assimilation
- When a prefix is added to a verb, the initial consonant of the verb may cause the final consonant of the prefix to adapt in sound to its neighbor
- Relative pronoun
- connects a clause
- Decline
- nouns, adjectives, and pronouns change endings, depending on their use in the sentence; that is, they are said to decline
- Genitive
- the case of possession
- Nominative
- the case of the subject
- Temperal conjunction
- joins two clauses in a sentence by whowing the time relation between them, that is, whether the action in one clause happens before, after, or at the same time as the other
- Transitive
- a verb is transitive if an accusative direct object completes its meaning
- Accusative
- the case of the direct object
- Gender
- nourns, adjectives and pronouns all fall into three cetegories: masculine, feminine and neuter
- Declension
- a family of nouns/adjs.
- Imperative
- the form of the verb that gives an order
- Intransative
- a verb is intransitive if its meaning is complete without an accusative direct object
- Conjugation
- one of the four groups of verbs
- Active voice
- subject does the acting, endings -t and -nt
- Case
- the various forms a noun/adj/pronoun takes depending on its function in a sentece. Ex- nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, vocative.
- Enclitic
- is a word that cannot stand on its own; it attaches itself to the word it follows (for example, -que)
- Vocative
- when one person uses another's name as a form of address
- Independent clause
- A group of words with a subject (expressed or implied) and verb expressing a complete thought
- Pronoun
- takes the place of a noun
- Interrogative pronoun
- asks a question
- Direct Object:
- the person or thing that completes the meaning of the verb and is represented in Latin by the accusative case
- Subject
- the person or thing that performs the action of the verb and is represented in Latin by the nominative case
- Passive voice
- subject is acted upon, endings -tur and -ntur; thing doing the acting becomes ablative
- Indicative
- the form of the verb that asks a question or makes a statement