Session (1.2.6) Pluperfect Verbs

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Objectives

Learn to recognise the pluperfect and how it is translated.

Engage

Complete Exercise A8.3 page 69 of de Romanis Book 2.

Learn

Finally, you will look at pluperfect verbs. Can you see from the table on page 66 of de Romanis Book 2 how they are formed? perfect stem + the imperfect of sum.

Look very carefully at the third person plural in the pluperfect. Now compare it with the third person plural of the perfect tense. The change of one vowel means that you must look very carefully at the endings or you will mistranslate the tense of the verb.

Apply

Now practise the pluperfect in Exercise 8.11 on page 66.

Consolidate

Complete Exercise A8.4 on page 70.

Go back over the vocabulary and the new forms of adjectives and adverbs that you have learnt.

Can you remember how to identify and translate them?
Do you know how to translate sē?
Review the pluperfect. How does it differ in meaning and form from the perfect tense?

When you are confident that you can do all of this, move on to Assignment One.

Extend

Try the English to Latin sentences in Exercise C8.1 on page 74 (you can download a pdf to write on below) and Consolidation Exercises D8.1 and D8.2:

COMPLETE – Exercise C8.1

COMPLETE - Exercise D8.1 Download COMPLETE - Exercise D8.1

COMPLETE - Exercise D8.2

Review

Check your answer to Exercise 8.11 in Chapter 8: Core Language answers

And to A8.3, A8.4, C8.1, D8.1 and D8.2 in Chapter 8: Additional Language answers