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CHAPTER 1
Introduction to the Sentence
Parts of Speech
What Different Words Do
Sentence Patterns: Intransitive, Transitive
The Verb: First and Second Conjugations
Present Active Indicative and Infinitive
Principal Parts
Indicative Uses: Statements, Questions
Infinitive Use: Complementary Infinitive
1. The Sentence
A sentence in Latin, as in English, is made up of words which express a complete thought.The simplest form of a sentence includes only a subject and a verb:
The farmer works. They walk.
In order to understand sentences in English, we depend on knowing some rules of word order, for example: subjects come before verbs. Latin, however, uses a system which adds different endings onto certain words to make their function and meaning clear, so you will need to learn those endings before you can read Latin. You will also need to understand the different types of words which make up a sentence and what each of those words does.