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FLIPPING GerundS

Learn how to flip gerunds into gerundives to enhance your understanding of Latin grammar. Discover the concept of gerundival attraction and its impact on language structure. This technique helps clarify expressions and create purpose clauses effectively.

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FLIPPING GerundS

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  1. FLIPPING GerundS or Gerundival attraction

  2. The gerundive takes over

  3. OK-ish Latin • I became rich and famous by teaching Latin • linguamLatinamdocendō • but since when can a noun have an object????

  4. Preferred Latin • Flip the gerund into a gerundive and make it agree with the noun. • (or gerundival attraction) • I became wise by teaching the Latin language • (ABLATIVE) • linguāLatinādocendā

  5. With this flip, the idea of OBLIGATION disappears

  6. The Gerund shut out

  7. Gerundive of Purpose • This is very common with ad + accusative • (it’s another way of doing purpose clauses) • Again, we flip the gerund into a gerundive • ad + acc • ad Caledonios • ad Caledoniosoppugnandos

  8. Battle of Culloden

  9. Remember that a gerund can only be a • singular • neuter • noun

  10. <Geeky point> • intransitive verbs (verbs with a direct object not in the accusative) have to be used impersonally, so they can look like gerunds. • verbs of going (eundem, festinandum, currendum etc.) • verbs taking the dative (impero, credo, resisto etc.) vino resistendumest a nobis ante ientaculum (Resistance to wine must be done by us ) = We must resist wine before breakfast. • For clarity, where there are two datives, the dative of agent often gets turned into the more expected a/ab + ablative)

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