PREPARATION FOR FINAL EXAM -- Friday, June 7, 11:00am
-- Vocabulary: study all old (flash card) vocabulary which we had quizzes on in Term 1 & Term 2. (You shd have flash cards for all of these words, but they are also on your assignment sheets).
Forms
-- Declensions (nouns): study all five declensions, including vis. Pay special attention to 3rd declension (consonant stems, i-stems, neuters, neuter i-stems).
-- Adjectives: 1st & 2nd declension adjectives (magnus -a -um), 3rd decl. adjectives (1, 2, & 3 terminations: fortis forte, audax, etc.), irregular adjectives (UNUS NAUTA). Study comparison of adjectives (see your notes).
-- Verbs: study all four conjugations including 3rd io. Study the indicative forms as well as the subjunctive forms, active & passive. Study deponent verbs (patior pati passus sum, etc.). Study irregular verbs (sum, possum, volo, nolo, fio, fero, etc.).
Know how to form participles and infinitives.
Syntax
-- Cases: study the different uses of the ablative case (e.g. abl. of time when, abl. of degree of difference, abl. absolute, etc.), accusative case (acc. to of place to which, acc. of duration of time, etc.), the genitive case (partitive gen., objective gen., etc.), the dative case (indirect obj., dative with special verbs, etc.). You have notes on these & a handout that summarizes all of the case uses.
-- Uses of the infinitive mood: complementary infinitive, subjective inf., inf. in an inf. phrase, inf. in indirect discourse. Understand the ABS chart (sequence of tenses in ID). You have notes on all of these uses.
-- Uses of subjunctive mood: jussive, purpose clauses, rel. clauses of purpose, result clauses, substantive clauses of result, indirect commands, cum clauses, subordinate clauses in ID, rel. clauses of characteristic, indirect questions. Be sure to understand Sequence of Tenses. You have notes on all of these uses.
-- Gerunds & gerundives. Know how to form them & how to use them (according to the different cases, genitive, etc.). See the two handouts. When is it necessary to change a gerund into a gerundive? Passive periphrastic. Dative of agent.
Translation
-- Study Jason & the Argonauts, chapters 1 to 4, & chap. 6.
-- Study Caesar's Bellum Gallicum, chapters 1 to 8.
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