Latin

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Latin English

• introduction

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The Indo-European Language Family
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Indo-European Languages Cognates
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Romance Languages Derivatives
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Romance Languages Derivatives
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Latin English

• Cognate Derived

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The Indo-European Language Family
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A VERY brief history of the English language

• Germanic Language Family
• basic vocabulary
• Norman invasion in 1066
• French
• Political ties severed in 1204

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Inflection vs. Word order

• Latin vs. English

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A Few essential terms

• Noun person, place, thing
• Verb expresses action
• Sentence
• Group of words expressing sensible thought
• Statement
• Question
• Command
• must contain
• subject (performs an action)
• noun (or pronoun)
• and a verb (expresses an action)

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More on nouns

• A sentence may contain several nouns
• Each with different grammatical functions
• Subject (performs an action)
• Direct object (receives action)
• Indirect Object (benefits from the action)

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Word order

• Subject Verb Direct object
• The bunny chases the cat
• The cat chases the bunny

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Inflection

• Form of word changes according to grammatical
  function in sentence
• Compare
• he/him/his
• She/her/hers
• Who/whom/whose
• He sees her
• Her he sees

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Latin Verbs
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