Chapter 1, Drill a: Identifying sentence patterns

Each of the following short Latin sentences is in one of two basic sentence patterns covered in Chapter 1. Identify the pattern by choosing SV for sentences with a subject and action verb; choose SVC for sentences consisting of a subject, a linking verb, and a complement (predicate noun or predicate adjective). If you choose the right answer, you will be told: "recte! bene!" (correct! good!) If you choose the wrong answer, you will be told: "non recte" (not correct).

Examples:
Question: Quintus est puer. Answer: SVC (Quintus is subject; est, "is" or "he is", is the linking verb; puer is complement, meaning that Quintus = puer.)
Question: Quintus in Apulia habitat. Answer: SV (Quintus is subject; in Apulia is a prepositional phrase and thus neither subject, verb, nor complement; habitat is an action verb; there is no complement.)

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