Exercise 5: Chapters 29-30

 

Imperfect, Perfect, Pluperfect Subjunctive

Result, Sequence of Tenses, Indirect Questions

I Forms: Give present, imperfect, perfect and pluperfect subjunctive of:

II Translate into Latin, paying special attention to the difference between purpose and result clauses; indirect question and sequence of tenses. Another exercise on sequence of tenses will be found in number 15 at the end of the work book. We will work on it for extra practice.

Look for the word so to help identify a result clause.

Indirect Question: a verb of asking, a question word, the subjunctive.

1. Cicero sent this letter to his friend in order to make his [i.e. the friend's] life pleasant.

2. He wrote so well that his friend was happy.

3. His mind is so harsh that he does not know what love is.

4. The ancient sentences are so easy that we can read them in a very short time.

5. The orator was so wise that he feared nothing of evil.

6. I do not understand what you are doing.

7. I could not understand why you were doing those very wicked [things].

8. When these things had been said [review exercise 1], the king himself asked why we had come.

9. We knew why they had done that after the crimes had been reported.

10. He says that he has found four reasons why old age seems to many [people] to be unhappy. ["old age" = senectus, senectutis, f.]