by Dwane | Nov 17, 2017 | Grammar, Latin
I received this question: My specific question is from Visual Latin 1, Lesson 25B number 20. In the sentence “Hic homo rex bonus est.”, why is the word for king in the nominative form “rex”? Why is it not the accusative “regem”? Here is...
by Dwane | Oct 16, 2015 | Education, Latin
by Dwane | Oct 1, 2015 | Education, English, Latin
I received this email: Hi there, I ran across your blog in my internet search for “Henle Latin diagram answers” I am a Classical Conversations Challenge A tutor and learning Latin right along with my students this year. I am struggling because the...
by Dwane | Jan 15, 2015 | Education, English, Latin, ScreenCasts
The next video in the English diagramming series is here! I am slowly working my way through the famous First Year Latin text by Robert Henle. This is not my favorite Latin book (Lingua Latina, by Hans Orberg is.), but, I have quite a few students working their way...
by Dwane | Sep 18, 2014 | Education, English, Latin, Vocabulary
Ablative: a certain case of Latin nouns. The word derives from ablatus, which is from aufero, (to carry away), ultimately from ab (away) and fero (I carry). In it’s original sense, we use the ablative case when describing actions of carrying something away, or taking...
