Latin Resources
Drills for the Oxford Latin Curse
By Prof. Margaret B. Phillips, University of Missouri at St. Louis
Drills to accompany Oxford Latin Course, second edition.
Copyright 2000 by Margaret B. Phillips.
For educational use only.
BOOK 1
Identifying sentence patterns
vocabulary
Identifying case endings: nominative and accusative
Use of nominative and accusative
Vocabulary: words and phrases
Identifying sentence patterns
Forming accusatives in first and second declensions
Forming verbs in all four conjugations
Recognizing gender
Making adjectives agree with nouns
Plural forms of verbs
Plural forms of nouns and adjectives
Changing singular to plural
Using singular and plural in sentences
Personal endings of verbs
Formation of ablative case
Use of the ablative case: prepositions with ablative and accusative
Formation of infinitives
Complementary infinitives
Formation of the vocative case
Formation of questions
Formation of accusative and ablative in the third declension
Making adjectives agree with nouns in different declensions
The irregular verbs sum and possum
Using noun-adjective phrases
Formation of imperatives
Prepositions
Changing a simple factual statement to an order, using imperative mood
Genitive case endings
Noun-adjective phrases in the genitive case
Noun + genitive phrases
Formation of adverbs
Neuter nouns of the second and third declensions
Adjective endings, all genders
Making adjectives agree with nouns
Dative case, nouns and adjectives
Using the dative case
Practice using all cases
Review of cases
Practice using all cases
Practice using 'existential est' (est without complement)
Identifying subordinate clauses
Formation of relative clauses
Personal pronouns
Matching personal pronouns to the person of the verb
Personal pronouns (including reflexive pronouns) and possessive adjectives
Irregular verbs volo and nolo, and irregular imperatives of dico, duco, facio, and fero
Pronoun forms (demonstrative, intensive), with review of is, ille, sui
Review
BOOK 2
Principal parts of verbs
Formation of the imperfect tense
Use of the imperfect tense
Formation of the perfect (present perfect) tense
Use of the perfect (present perfect) tense
Use of the perfect (present perfect) and imperfect tenses
Principal parts of verbs including those whose present and perfect stem look the same
Latin numbers, cardinal and ordinal
Expressions of time
Principal parts of verbs including those whose third principal part has a lengthened stem
Formation of the pluperfect (past perfect) tense
Use of the pluperfect (past perfect) tense
Expressions of place
Using past tenses
Principal parts of verbs including those with reduplicated perfects
Formation of the fourth declension
Fourth-declension nouns
Principal parts of verbs including those with perfect stems in -vi/ivi and -ui
Fifth-declension nouns
Using fifth-declension nouns
Principal parts of verbs including those whose present stems have -sc-
Review various uses of the ablative
The irregular verb fero and its compounds
Uses of the ablative
The irregular verbs fero, eo, possum, volo, nolo, malo, and compounds
Comparison of adjectives
Using comparatives and superlatives
Adjectives with an irregular superlative, and adverbs
Using comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives and adverbs
Formation of the present active participle
Using the present active participle, all cases
Formation of questions
Formation of the future tense
Formation of the future perfect tense
The use of future tenses
The forms of the relative pronoun
Using the relative pronoun
Using relative clauses
Using relative clauses
Forms of the pronouns alter, uter, uterque
Using alter, uter, uterque
Principal parts of verbs, including the fourth principal part (supine)
Understanding the passive voice
Using the perfect passive participle
Ablative of personal agent and ablative of means
Principal parts of verbs, including the fourth principal part (supine)
Forms of the perfect passive tenses
Using passive verbs
Drill more verbs, all four principal parts
Forms of the present system passive tenses
Using passive verbs
Review
BOOK 3
Formation of present subjunctive active
Formation of imperfect subjunctive active
Use of the subjunctive in purpose (final) clauses
Turning an English verb phrase into a Latin verb phrase
Formation of pluperfect (past perfect) subjunctive active
Formation of subjunctive passive, present and imperfect, and past perfect (pluperfect)
Using the subjunctive in indirect commands
Using the subjunctive in "cum" clauses
Turning an English verb phrase into a Latin verb phrase
Principal parts of deponent verbs
Using deponent verbs
Using "opus est" with dative and ablative
Formation of Ablative absolutes
Use of the ablative absolute
More use of ablative absolute
Use of participial phrases either modifying nouns which are grammatically part of the sentence or as ablative absolutes
Use of participial phrases either modifying nouns which are grammatically part of the sentence or as ablative absolutes
Formation of the future active participle
Use of the future active participle
Formation of the perfect active subjunctive
Changing direct questions to indirect, keeping the sequence of tenses
Turning an English verb phrase into a Latin verb phrase
Formation of the subjunctive active of irregular verbs
Formation of other forms of irregular verbs (partly review)
Principal parts of semi-deponent verbs
Practice using various forms of irregular verbs and semi-deponents
Miscellaneous adverbs
The ablative and genitive of value
Formation of infinitives
Changing a direct statement to an indirect one
Review
Ch 43 drills - url does not correspond to name of drill
Differentiating between purpose and result clauses
Turning an English verb phrase into a Latin verb phrase
Using conditions
Using conditions, the si-clause
Using subjunctives in main clauses
Comparatives and superlatives formed from prepositions
Using cum and dum in dependent clauses
Differentiating cum preposition from cum conjunction
Using a connecting relative pronoun
Using some alternative verb and noun forms
Formation of the gerund
Using the gerund
Practice using gerundives of obligation (passive periphrastic)
Using the predicative dative
Using relative purpose clauses
Review
