Question: What are the Primary Tenses in the Indicative? Present Future Future Perfect Present Perfect What are the Primary Tenses in the Subjunctive? Present (Same time or Future time) Perfect (Time before main verb)
Question: Imperfect Pluperfect Imperfect (Same time or Future time) What are the Secondary Tenses in the Indicative? Perfect Imperfect Pluperfect What are the Secondary Tenses in the Subjunctive? Imperfect (Same time or Future time) Pluperfect (Time before main verb)
Primary / Secondary Sequence Primary Tenses (tenses in pres or future): 1. Present 2. Future 3. Future-perfect 4. Present Perfect in English (one type of perfect in Latin. TRICKY!) Secondary Tenses (tenses in past): 1. Perfect (normal past tense) 2. Imperfect 3. Pluperfect
Primary Tenses (tenses in pres or future): Use two tenses of the subjunctive: Present (to show same or subsequent time) Perfect (to show prior time) Secondary Tenses (tenses in past): Imperfect (to show same or subsequent time) Pluperfect (to show prior time)
nescivi cur cucurrissent. nesciebam cur currerent. nescio cur cucurrerint. nesciam cur currant. Secondary Sequence Plupf and Imperfect Secondary Sequence Plupf and Imperfect Primary Sequence Perfect and Present
Say in Latin I know what you said. I know what you’re saying. I knew what you had said. I knew what you were saying. scio quid dixeris. scio quid dicas. scivi quid dixisses. Scivi quid diceres.