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Simple
Sentences
Simple
Sentences
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2. Subjective Statements |
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¡@ 2.1 Possibility Expressing statement of possibility for actions envisaged as continuing-> Present subjunctive Verba tua sine ulla dubitatione semper confirmem. Expressing statement of possibility for actions soon to be accomplished -> Perfect subjunctive Aliquis dixerit. Expressing all kinds of possibility -> Possum + infinitive Aliquis dicere potest. = Aliquis dixerit. -> Fortasse + indicative Fortasse quispiam quaeret. |
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¡@ 2.2 Wish, exhortation, command Wish for something possible in the present or future-> Present subjunctive Di omnia bona tibi dent! |
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¡@ 2.3 Advice / exhortation -> Debeo + infinitivePatriam amare debemus. = Amemus patriam. -> Passive periphrastic conjugation Patria nobis est amanda. Advice / exhortation for 1st person plural -> Present subjunctive Amemus patriam! Command to 2nd person -> Imperative Da mi basia mille! Ignoscito semper alteri, numquam tibi! Salus populi suprema lex esto! Command to 3rd person -> Present subjunctive Audiatur et altera pars! |
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¡@ 2.4 Prohibition -> Ne + perfect subjunctiveNe vos mortem timueritis! -> Noli, nolite + infinitive present (2nd person) Noli turbare circulos meos! -> Ne + future imperative Hominem mortuum in urbe ne sepelito! -> Fac ne, vide ne, cave ne, cave, with subjunctive Cave festines! ¡@ |
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¡@ 2.5 Exclamation -> Quam + adjective, adverb, verbQuam multa fecisti! Quam laudari cupiunt! -> Verb missing, noun in accusative + O Me miserum! O, Fallacem hominum spem! -> Interjection without verb + noun in nominative, dative, accusative Ecce homo (nominative)! Vae victis (dative)! Bene nos (accusative)! Proh dolor(nominative)! ¡@ |
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¡@ 2.6 Interjection -> Accusative + infinitiveTe nunc, mea Terentia, sic vexari! -> Question + ut + subjunctive Tu ut umquam te corrigas? |
Source: Milena Minkova "Introduction to Latin Prose Composition", Wimbledon Publishing Company, London:2001.
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