PRACTICE - Ablative & Accusative - BASIC

LEARNING TARGET:

- I can identify uses of the ablative and accusative noun cases.

INSTRUCTIONS:

- Answer each question, using your board notes to help, if you took a picture of your notes in class. Be careful of spelling in questions that are not multiple choice.


PREPOSITIONS:

- little words that show POSITION or where

With ACCUSATIVE nouns after them (such as: AD VILLAM):

- - - prope, contra, sub, inter, ante, ad, in, post, per, circum

With ABLATIVE nouns after them (such as: CUM AMICO):

- - - a/ab, e/ex, sub, in, cum, pro, sine, de

- - - Used with people, not things: cum (with) and a/ab (by)


ABLATIVE OF MEANS:

- with or by or in/on a thing (such as: with a straw, by car, in a spaceship, with a pencil); does NOT use a preposition in Latin


ACCUSATIVE DIRECT OBJECT:

- after the verb in English; receives the action (such as: They found a TURTLE. I have a HEADACHE.)


TIME EXPRESSIONS:

ACCUSATIVE OF TIME:

- FOR a specific amount of time
- Called Accusative of Time How Long (or Duration of Time)

ABLATIVE OF TIME:

- IN, ON, AT a specific time, day, year, etc.
- Called Ablative of Time When


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