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PREPARATIONS. Note to the Teacher.- —^The following " Preparations " not intended to do the work, of a vocabulary
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on graanmatical points, and .thereforp contain only (i) words presenting some new grammatical feature not previously studied, (2) constructions, or phrases i^hich call for special notice. In this respect these Preparations differ from those given in Ora Maritima. The pupil is now supposed to be capable of looking out unknown words in the Alphabetical Vocabulary (pp. 149-175). In connexion with each new grammatical feature introduced, the necessary grammatical rules and tables are. given ; so that the pupil using this book has no need of a separate grammar:.' nature' of outline lessons
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The amount of grammar assuined as known at the start is that contained in Ora Maritima, -viz., the first three Declensions of Nouns, Adjectives of similar formation (except those in of the Indicative is, e of the 3rd Declension), all the tenses Active of the ist Conjugation and of the verb sum, and a few isolated. forms of Pronouns (me, mihi ; te, tibi ; se, sibi ; nos, nobis : vos, vobis).
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On the Pronunciation of Words. If the last syllable but one of a word of ,more than two syllables is long, it is also if short, the accent is thrown back on accented (thus remotus) to the last syllable but two (thus rimovet, rimove). Words of only two, syllables are always accented on the first ot.the two (thus: vires, vtrum). Very few Latin words are accented on the The only one that occurs in this book is adhuc. last syllable. This and similar words have lost a,syllable, which explains the accentuation adhuc stands for adhu-ce.
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Syllables ending in two or more consonants are mostly long, as in Siperta,, ienestra, ; so too are syllables containing a double vowel, as in nautae. But many syllables ending in a single consonant and containing a single vowel are also long, because the vowel is itself a long vowel all such long vowels are marked in the {oUowing Preparations. Thus beaia and antiqua have the middle vowel long, and will therefore be marked bedta, antiqua : and it is because the middle syllable in each of these words has a long vowel in it that it is accented {bedta, antiqua). Vowels which do not bear any mark in the following Preparations may be regarded as short,: as in domina, amita, casa, quoque, mea, tua (accented ddmina, dmita, cdsa, qudqiie, mia, tiia].
