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Help/Advice for mastering Wheelock's Ch 9 (Latin demonstratives)?


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We are at the same place right now. It is a lot to assimilate, isn't it? We've just been chanting them off and on for the last two days. I've actually been carrying around copies of the paradigms in my car and whenever we've had a few minutes I've forced the poor boy to chant them out loud and then be quizzed by me.

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BTW, what my son did was write the chart, then write one line without looking and copy the rest. Then write two lines without looking and copy the rest. Repeat until he could write the whole chart for each demonstrative.

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Demonstratives can function as pronouns when used alone. (hic = this man; illa = that woman), or they can also function as adjectives, in which case they agree in case, number, and gender with the noun they modify (hic puer = this boy, illa puella = that girl, illi libri = those books).

 

You do have to memorize the complete forms of hic and ille for all the cases, genders, and sing/plural. Easier said than done!! :tongue_smilie: Many students chant the forms till they become second nature (hic, haec, hoc,...ad nauseum)

 

Wheelocks fortunately has lots of great online helps...I found a few for Ch 9:

 

flashcards on quizlet

 

drill on hic & ille

 

Dale Grote's study guide for ch.9

 

explanations and drills

 

more drills

 

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You do have to memorize the complete forms of hic and ille for all the cases, genders, and sing/plural. Easier said than done!! :tongue_smilie: Many students chant the forms till they become second nature (hic, haec, hoc,...ad nauseum)

 

 

Exactly. And unlike for nouns and adjectives, it's easier to memorize these (and all the pronouns) "across" instead of "down", as there are more patterns there. That is memorize in this order: "hic, haec, hoc, huius, huius, huius, huic, huic, huic", and not "hic, huius, huic, hunc..."

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