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Passive Tense
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Cogita Find an example of the ablative of means from the book OR Make up your own sentence with an ablative of means
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Voice The term “voice” refers to the relationship between the subject of a verb and the action of the verb.
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Passive Voice Nothing wrong with it, usually the active voice is just a better way to express your thoughts. English is kind of anti-passive voice Latin is kind of pro-passive voice
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Grammatically The subject of the sentence is receiving the action of the verb instead of doing the action of the verb.
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The mouse is eating cake.
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The cake is being eaten by the mouse.
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The cake is eating the mouse.
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The mouse is being eaten by the cake.
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Can you come up with a sentence in English that uses the passive voice?
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Passive Voice in Latin 1.Get the stem! 2.Add the passive endings Passive Ending SingularPlural First Person-rI-murwe Second Person -risyou-minīy’all yThird Person-turs/he/it-nturthey
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Active Tense in Latin 1.Get the stem! 2.Add the personal endings Personal Ending SingularPlural First Person-o/-mI-muswe Second Person -syou-itisy’all yThird Person-ts/he/it-ntthey
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Passive Voice in Latin 1.Get yo stem! 2.Add yo passive endings 3.You are done. You can go home now. Passive Ending SingularPlural First Person-rI-murwe Second Person -risyou-minīy’all Third Person-turs/he/it-nturthey
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Nota Bene: There ain’t nothing funky about the 1 st person passive. It’s as white bread as they come. Here’s what you do: 1. Take the 1 st principal part 2. Slap an “r” on the end.
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The Passive Song Sung to “We Will Rock You” R RIS TUR MUR MINI NTUR Present passive Endings, endings One of these endings should be your choice Whenever you use the passive voice You take off “r-e” That’s your base Now you just put the endings in place
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Conjugate exspectō, exspectāre, exspectāvī, exspectātum in the passive voice SingularPlural 1 st ExspectorExspectāmur 2ndExspectārisExspectāminī 3rdExspectāturExspectāntur
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Conjugate Iubeō, iubēre, iussī, iussum in your packet SingularPlural 1 st IubeorIubēmur 2ndIubērisIubēminī 3rdIubēturIubēntur
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Keeping the same number and person, switch these active verbs into passive ones Cogitat Cogitātur Doleō Doleor Narrāmus Narrāmur Tenent Tenentur
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Do exercise 1 in your packet Videntur Vocātur Iubēmur Cūrāminī Amor Dēbentur Darid Exspectātur
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Work on Exercise 3 in your packet alone.
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