Each of the following short Latin sentences is in one of two basic sentence patterns covered in Chapter 1. Identify the pattern by choosing SV for sentences with a subject and action verb; choose SVC for sentences consisting of a subject, a linking verb, and a complement (predicate noun or predicate adjective). If you choose the right answer, you will be told: "recte! bene!" (correct! good!) If you choose the wrong answer, you will be told: "non recte" (not correct).
Examples: Question: Quintus est puer. Answer: SVC (Quintus is subject; est, "is" or "he is", is the linking verb; puer is complement, meaning that Quintus = puer.) Question: Quintus in Apulia habitat. Answer: SV (Quintus is subject; in Apulia is a prepositional phrase and thus neither subject, verb, nor complement; habitat is an action verb; there is no complement.)
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