Sylvia Said:

where can I find compound subject and predicate worksheets?

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http://www.kwiznet.com/p/takeQuiz.php?Ch…

this may help.

Leonard Said:

Simple Subject/Simple Predicate Help?

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I think you better ask your teacher to explain it. Be careful in how you approach this matter, or the rest of the year will be hard! Either her teacher guidebook has an error, which is common, or she wasn't paying attention.
Do you know how to diagram a sentence? if so, you could diagram this one and take the diagram to her and tell her you don't understand why "from which aluminum is extracted" is not an adjective phrase.
You are right but if you go thru life trying to debate questions with people who hold all the power you'll be sorry. Lead your teacher gently into a face-saving way of agreeing with your assessment of the sentence.

Sean Said:

PLEASE give me some latin help!!! Test tomorrow, need help w/ worksheet!?

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For nouns:

Step 1: Determine the declension of the noun or adjective.

How do you do this?

a. Well you have to look up the parts of the noun if you don't know them. Take for example "tabulas"; it comes from tabula, -ae, f.

b. Then you look at the second part (-ae for the noun listed above) and determine it's declension:
-ae=1st
-i=2nd
-is=3rd
-us=4th
-ei=5th

Step 2: You look at the gender and find the form in the correct chart. (The back of your Latin book has these in the Grammatical Index); tabula, -ae, f. =1st declension feminine. if you look in the chart you will find it is accuasative plural feminine; If you haven't learned your endings, you can use songs or other mnemonic devices

Step 3: NOT NECESSARY for tabulas because it can ONLY be one case, determine the function of the noun:

Is it the doer of the action (nominative- SHE threw the ball)

Is it the reciever of the action (accusative-she threw the BALL)

Does it occur after a verb of giving, showing, or telling (dative-translated to / for as in "I gave the ball TO YOU)

Is it showing possession/partitive (genitive-The father OF THE BOY is nice OR The BOY'S father is nice)

Is it indicating means, manner, instrument, or object of "sine, in, de, sub, prope, pro, a/ab, ***, e/ex" (ablative-translate using "under, without, in, on, from, with, out of, about, etc."

An adressee (vocative-oh JUPPITER, woe is me! I have a Latin test tomorrow =) )

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For adjectives:

Step 1: Determine what kind of adjective you have

a. is it a 1st / 2nd adjective like laetus, -a, -um OR is it a 3rd adjective like tristis, -is, -e (which of these two does it LOOK like); laetus, -a, -um is a 1st / 2nd declension adjective

b. look up the endings for each type of adjective in the grammatical index

c. find out what cases the adjective could be; laeti could be vocative plural m., nominative plural m., or genitive singular masc or neuter

d. determine the case of the adjective by figuring out what noun it modifies (adjectives must be the same CASE, NUMBER, and GENDER as the noun they modify): In "Hodie, Romani sunt laeti" laeti HAS TO GO WITH Romani because it is the only noun in the sentence. Then you figure out the case of Romani which is the subject of the Linking verb "sunt"; SUBJECTS=NOMINATIVES (most of the time anyway), so Romani is nominative. I tell my students that "est", "sunt", etc. (forms of esse) are really "=" signs. So if Romani = laeti, then since Romani is "nominative" so is laeti. Laeti therefore is a predicate nominative!

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For Verbs: It looks like you only have verbs that are active, indicative, and of the primary tenses. Person indicates who is doing the action. All you have to do is look at the endings:

-o / -m= 1st person singular, "I"
-s= 2nd person singular, "you"
-t=3rd person singular, "he/she/it" OR stated SINGULAR subject such as "Marcus"
-mus=1st person plural, "we"
-tis=2nd person plural, "you all"
-nt=3rd person plural, "they"

Because "habitabat" ends in -t, it is 3rd person singular.

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I told you in the steps above how to do the last one, but I'll guide you through it.

Step 1: What kind of adjective is "avarus" (parts-avarus, -a, -um)? 1st / 2nd

Step 2: What cases can it be? nominative singular or vocative singular

Step 3: What noun does it modify (the noun must be either nominative singular or vocative singular because adjectives and nouns agree in gender, number, and case)? vir, viri, m. works because "vir" is the nominative singular form of the noun if you look in the 2nd declension masculine chart. Agricola also works because although 1st declension it is actually a rare masculine, nominative, singular 1st declension. REGARDLESS, "avarus" MUST BE nominative, singular, masculine

Step 4: Ask your teacher if she was looking for "B" or "C"; I believe "B" is probably more correct (The farmer is a greedy man); but "C" also works because "avarus vir" both act as predicate nominatives and "avarus" is an adjective; As I said though, I bet he/she wanted "B"

Hope that helped!

Albert Said:

Help On Diagramming Sentences?

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Try searching for "diagramming English sentences" or variations on this. You could also try "parsing" (or "parse") English sentences if you don't really care about a pictorial diagram.

The URL in my source has a practice sheet to help you practice on sentences with objects. The answers are supposedly there (I didn't try it).

Marc Said:

i need help please!*#7?

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You'll surely get help of you post your question in the Homework Help category instead of here in Languages. Here's the link:

http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/;_ylt=ArvIA…