27 grammar i
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Chapter 27 GrammarPart I: Gerunds
Gerunds
• A gerund is an active verbal noun and declines like bellum:
• There is no nominative form and no plural forms
1st 2nd 3rd 3rd io 4th
para- mone- reg- capi- audi-
parandum monendum regendum capiendum audiendum
preparing warning ruling taking hearing
Use of the Gerund
• Expresses purpose in the accusative with adueni ad uobis succurrendum.
• Expresses purpose in the genitive with causa (by reason of, for the sake of)
ueni uobis succurrendi causa.• In the dative with words requiring a dative
non satis otii habebo carmina scribendo.• Expresses cause of means in the ablative
celeriter currendo domum ante noctem adueni.
Exercise 27.1 #1-3
1. Horatius artem dicendi Romae didicit.
2. deinde Athenas uenit philosophiae studendi causa.
3. diligenter studendo multa ibi didicit.
Exercise Translations
27.1.1: Horatius learned the art of speaking in Rome.27.1.2: Then he came to Athens for the purpose of studying philosophy.27.1.3: By studying diligently, he learned many things there.
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