Online Latin Drills
Prof. Margaret B. Phillips, University
of Missouri at St. Louis
Chapter 1: Scintilla and Horatia at
home
Nominative case, Complement, Introduction
to sentence patterns
In any language, comprehension is surer
when you recognize the basic structure of the language. In Chapter
1 you have met two basic sentence patterns, the Subject-Verb
pattern, with an expressed subject and a verb, and Subject-Verb-Complement
pattern, with an expressed subject, a linking verb ("is"),
and a complement (predicate noun or predicate adjective).
In this exercise, identify which of the two
patterns each Latin sentence is, answering SV or SVC where appropriate.
In this exercise, supply the correct Latin word
from Chapter 1 vocabulary.
Roman mosaic of servant
boy in kitchen scene (with figs, fish, etc.) St. Petersburg,
Hermitage Museum. Credits: Barbara McManus, 1988. From VRoma
Archives.
