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Chapter 16: Caesaris funus

Active and passive.

Bust of Mark Antony.
Vatican Museums; from Wikimedia commons.

Inscription on a gate into Ostia, the port of Rome. According to an interpretation by F. Zevi (1998) the latin inscription reads:
SENATVS POPVLVSQVE ROMANVS
COLONIAE OSTIENSIVM MVROS ET PORTAS DEDIT
M. TVLLIVS CICERO CO(n)S(ul) FECIT CVRAVITQUE[?]
P. CLODIVS PVLCHER TR(ibunus) PL(ebis) CONSVMMAVIT ET PROBAVIT
PORTAM VETVSTATE CORRVPTAM [...]
From en.wikipedia.org

In this exercise, practice creating four principal parts of verbs you know.

In this exercise, practice creating four principal parts of verbs you know, part 2.

In this exercise, test yourself on recognizing active and passive.

In this exercise, practice using perfect passive participles.

In this exercise, practice using passive verbs by changing short sentences from active to passive.

In this exercise, practice participles: present active, perfect passive, future active. UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Copyright 2012 by Margaret B. Phillips
University of Missouri at St. Louis
Languages and Cultures program
Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Languages
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