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). Some of them are sentences without any subject expressed; for those, choose "S+V" no matter what the overall structure of the sentence is.
Examples: Question: Horatia est puella. Answer: SVC (Horatia is subject; est, "is" or "she is", is the linking verb; puella is complement, meaning that Horatia = puella.) Question: Horatia in Apulia habitat. Answer: SV (Horatia is subject; in Apulia is a prepositional phrase and thus neither subject, verb, nor complement; habitat is an action verb; there is no complement.) Question: Horatia cenam parat. Answer: SOV (cenam is direct object.) Question: laborat. Answer: S+V
Click on the button with the correct answer. In S+V sentences, ignore any object or complement and concentrate just on the S+V.