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How is indirect speech conveyed in Latin?

Indirect speech differs from direct speech in two key ways; first, the subject of the sentence is in the accusative case, which may be surprising, given that the accusatice is typically used to express not t...
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Translate into Latin: "The girls were walking to the forum." From OCR GCSE Latin Language Paper (9-1), 2015.

Answer: puellae ad forum ambulabant "The girls" - The word for girl is puella, genitive singular puellae, which means puella is 1st declension. "the girls" is in the nominative case, so w...
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In the following passage (Aeneid 4.10-12) how does Vergil highlight Dido's admiration through her speech? Make two points, each referring to the Latin. (4)

In this passage, Vergil highlights Dido's admiration of Aeneas through her repeated questions & exclamations: 'Quis novus... quem sese ore ... quam forte' 'Who is this new man... with what bearing... How...
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Parse sonant

The first step of parsing is to work out from which verb the word comes. For sonant, this is sono, sonare, sonui, sonitum, a first conjugation verb meaning I make a noise/sound.The -nt ending indicates that ...
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What declension is genu meaning "knee". Decline it.

genu is a fourth declension neuter noun. It declines in the order of cases nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, in the singular and plural forms, like so: SINGULAR - genu, genu, genu...
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