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The Accusative Case. Chapter 2. Review of Chapter 1. In Chapter 1 you learned that Latin has 5 CASES. Two important facts to remember: 1. The case of a noun is determined by its use in the sentence. 2. The ending of a Latin noun will tell you what case that word is in. Review, continued.
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The Accusative Case Chapter 2
Review of Chapter 1 • In Chapter 1 you learned that Latin has 5 CASES. • Two important facts to remember: 1. The case of a noun is determined by its use in the sentence. 2. The ending of a Latin noun will tell you what case that word is in.
Review, continued • the Nominative case is used for subjects and predicate nominatives. • the Ablative Case is used as the object of the preposition, “in” .
Use of the Accusative Case • The first use of the Accusative case is for direct objects. Examples: • Will ate an apple. • Anna played the piano. • Michelle planted the tomato plants in the garden. Each of the highlighted words is a direct object, and it would have an accusative ending.
Direct Objects and their Verbs • A direct object receives the action of a verb. • The direct object will answer who? or what? after the verb. Examples: • Matthew hit the ball. What did he hit? The ball . . . . . .ball is the direct object. • I love you! Whom do I love? You . . .. . .You is the direct object.
Action Verbs • Notice that to have a direct object, you must have an action verb. • Linking verbs (est, sunt) are never followed by direct objects.
Accusative Endings • In Latin, direct objects will have an Accusative ending. • The Accusative endings for all three declensions are listed below. N.B. All singular direct objects end in –m; all plural direct objects end in –s.
Word Order • Typically, the word order in a Latin sentence is: Subject Direct Object Verb S DO V HOWEVER…the use of the noun is dictated by the ENDING, not the word order.
Recap • You have now learned 3 cases: Nominative, Accusative, Ablative.