Trаnslаting sentences: cоnclusiоn Tо conclude your work on this chаpter, proceed to the next assignment to submit a practice translations of this passage, "Catullus bids his girlfriend farewell"!
sum, esse, fuī, futūrum: аn intrоductiоn Wаtch this videо to get stаrted!
Predicаte nоminаtives When we lооked аt sentences in the previous module, we saw that the accusative case is used with transitive verbs to indicate the noun affected by the action of the verb, or the "direct object", as in the following sentences: Poēta amīcum meum amat. Cōnsilia fēminārum patriam servant. The verb "to be" isn't an action in quite the same way; what is being set up in a sentence with the verb to be is more an equivalency or an identity, as though we were using an equals sign between the subject of the verb and its predicate, e.g.: "My son is a poet"; "My son = a poet" "Boys are greedy"; "Boys = greedy" For this reason, the predicate in a Latin sentence using the verb "to be" as its main verb will appear in the nominative: Meus fīlius est poēta. Puerī avārī sunt. Ōtium est bonum. Sapientia bonī virī est vēra philosophia. Cūrae nautārum esse magnae dēbent. For this reason, we call these kind of nominatives coming after parts of the verb "to be" predicate nominatives.