The English rudiments of the Latine tongue, explained by question and answer. VVhich are so formed, that a childe, omitting altogether the questions, may learn onely the answers, and bee fully instructed in the rudiments of the Latine tongue. / By William Du-Gard. For the use of Marchant-Tailor's School.

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The English rudiments of the Latine tongue, explained by question and answer. VVhich are so formed, that a childe, omitting altogether the questions, may learn onely the answers, and bee fully instructed in the rudiments of the Latine tongue. / By William Du-Gard. For the use of Marchant-Tailor's School.

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Dugard, William, 1606-1662.

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London: :: Printed by W.D. and are to bee sold by Francis Eglesfield at the Marigold in Paul's Church-yard.,

An. Do. 1656.

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Latin language -- Grammar -- 1500-1799.

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Contents

• title page
• To the LEARNER of the RUDIMENTS of the Latine Tongue.
  • part
• The Rudiments of the LATINE TONGUE.
  • part
    • Question, 1. How many parts of Speech are there?
  • Of a NOUN.
    • Qu 2. What is a Noun?
    • Qu. 3. How many sorts of Nouns are there?
    • Qu. 4. What is a Noun Substantive?
    • Qu. 5. What is a Noun Adjective?
    • Qu. 6. How is a Noun Substantive declined?
    • Qu. 7. How is a Nonn Adjective declined?
    • Qu. 8. How many sorts of Nouns Sub∣stantives bee there?
    • Qu. 9. How many things belong to a Noun?
    • Qu. 10 How many Numbers bee there in a Noun?
    • Qu. 11. How know you the Singular Number?
    • Qu: 12. How the Plural?
  • Cases of Nouns.
    • Qu. 13. How many Cases bee there in Nouns?
    • Qu. 14. How know you the Nominative Case?
    • Qu. 15. How the Genitive?
    • Qu. 16. How the Dative?
    • Qu. 17. How the Accusative?
    • Qu. 18. How the Vocative?
    • Qu. 19. How the Ablative?
  • Articles.
    • Qu. 20. What is the Ʋse of Articles?
  • Genders of Nouns.
    • Qu. 21. How manie Genders of Nouns bee there?
    • Qu. 22. How know you the Masculine Gender?
    • Qu. 23. How the Feminine?
    • Qu. 24. How the Neuter?
    • Qu. 25. How the Common of two?
    • Qu. 26. How the Common of three?
    • Qu. 27. How the Doubtfull?
    • Qu. 28. How the Epicene?
  • Declensions of Nouns.
    • Qu. 29. How many Declensions be there?
    • Qu. 30. How are the Five Declensions known, one from the other.
    • Qu. 31. How the first?
    • Qu. 32. How know you the second Declension?
    • Qu. 33. How know you the third De∣clension?
    • Qu. 34. How know you the fourth Declension?
    • Qu. 35. how know you the fift Declension?
  • The Declineing of Adjectives.
    • Qu. 36. How is a Noun Adjective of three terminations declined?
    • Qu. 37. How is a Noun Adjective of three Articles declined?
  • Comparisons of Nouns Adjectives.
    • Qu. 38. What is Comparison?
    • Qu. 39. What sorts of Nouns are compared?
    • Qu. 4. How many degrees of Com∣parison are there?
    • Qu. 41. How know you the Positive?
    • Qu. 42. How know you the Comparative?
    • Qu. 43. Whence is the Comparative degree formed?
    • Qu. 44. How know you the Superlative?
    • Qu. 45. Whence is the Superlative formed?
    • Qu. 46. How bee Nouns Adjectives of the Comparative degree declined?
    • Qu. 47. What exceptions are there from these general rules?
  • Of a Pronoun.
    • Qu. 48. What is a Pronoun?
    • Qu 49. How many Pronouns bee there:
    • Qu. 50 How many have the Vocative case?
    • Qu. 51. What are added to the Pronouns?
    • Qu. 52. How many Pronoun-Substan∣tives bee there?
    • Qu. 53. How many Pronoun▪ Primitives bee there?
    • Qu. 54. Why are they called Primitives?
    • Qu. 55. What are they called besides?
    • Qu. 56. How many Relatives are there?
    • Qu. 57. Why are they called Relatives?
    • Qu. 58. How many Pronoun▪ Derivatives are there?
    • Qu. 59. Why bee they called Derivatives?
    • Qu. 60. How many things belong to a Pronoun?
  • The Declensions of Pronouns.
    • Qu. 61. How many Declensions are three of Pronouns?
    • Qu. 62. How will you know what Declen∣sion a Pronoun is of?
    • Qu. 63. How many Pronouns bee of of the first Declension?
    • Qu. 64. How many Pronouns bee of the second Declension?
    • Qu. 65. How is hic declined?
    • Qu. 66. How many Pronouns bee of the third Declension?
    • Qu. 67. How many Pronouns bee of the fourth Declension?
    • Qu. 68. How many Persons bee there in a Pronoun?
    • Qu. 69. How know you the first person?
    • Qu. 70. How the second?
    • Qu. 71. How the third?
  • Of a VERB.
    • Qu. 72. What is a Verb?
    • Qu. 73. How many sorts of Verbs bee there?
    • Q. 74. How many kindes of Verbs Personals bee there?
    • Qu. 75. How know you a Verb Active?
    • Qu. 76. How a Verb Passive?
    • Qu. 77. How a Verb Neuter?
    • Qu. 78. How a Verb Deponent?
    • Qu. 79. How a Verb Commune?
  • MOODS.
    • Qu. 80. How many Moods are there?
    • Qu. 81. How know you the Indicative Mood?
    • Qu. 82. How the Imperative?
    • Qu. 83. How the Optative?
    • Qu. 84. How the Potential?
    • Qu. 85. How the Subjunctive?
    • Qu 86 How know you the Infinitive Mood?
  • Gerunds.
    • Qu. 87. What are there peculiarly belonging to the Infinitive Mood?
    • Qu. 88. How many Gerunds are there?
  • Supines.
    • Qu. 89. How many Supines bee there?
  • Tenses.
    • Qu. 90. How many Tenses bee there?
    • Qu. 91. How know you the Present Tens?
    • Qu. 92. How the Preterimperfect Tens?
    • Qu. 93 How the Preterpersect Tens?
    • Qu. 94. How know you the Preterpluperfect Tens?
    • Qu. 95. How the Future Tens?
  • Persons.
    • Qu. 96. How many Persons are there in Verbs?
  • Conjugations.
    • Qu. 79. How many Conjugations have Verbs?
    • Qu. 98. How know you the first Conjugation?
    • Qu. 99. How the second?
    • Qu. 100. How the third?
    • Qu. 101. How the fourth?
    • Qu. 102. How bee Ʋerbs in O declined?
    • INDICATIVE MOOD.
    • Imperative Mood.
    • Subjunctive Mood.
    • Infinitive Mood.
    • Indicative Mood.
    • Imperative Mood.
    • Subjunctive Mood.
    • Infinitive Mood.
  • Verbs in Or, of the Four Conjugations, bee declined after these examples.
    • The Indicative Mood.
    • Imperative Mood.
    • Subjunctive Mood.
    • Infinitive Mood.
  • Of certain Irregular Verbs which are declined and formed in manner following.
    • Indicative Mood.
    • Imperative Mood.
    • Subjunctive Mood.
    • Infinitive Mood.
    • Qu. 103. How are Eo and Queo formed?
    • Qu. 104. What Tenses are formed of the Preter∣perfect tens of the Indicative Mood?
    • Qu. 105. How are Verbs Impersonals declined?
    • Qu. 106. What is the common Sign of Verbs Impersonals?
  • Of a PARTICIPLE.
    • Qu. 107. What is a Participle?
    • Qu. 108. How many kinds of Participles bee there?
    • Qu. 109. How know you a Participle of the present tens?
    • Qu. 110. Whence i is formed?
    • Qu. 111. How know you a Participle of the Fu∣ture in rus?
    • Qu. 112. How is it formed?
    • Qu. 113. How know you a Participle of the Preter tens?
    • Qu. 114. How is it formed?
    • Qu. 114. How know you a Participle of the Future in dus?
    • Qu. 116. How is it formed?
    • Qu. 117. How many Participles com of a Verb Active? &c.
    • Qu. 118. How many of a Verb passive?
    • Qu. 119. How many of a Verb Deponent?
    • Qu. 120. How many of a Verb Commune?
    • Qu. 121. How are Participles declined?
  • Of an ADVERB.
    • Qu. 122. What is an Adverb?
    • Qu. 123. How many sorts of Adverbs bee there?
    • Qu. 124. Are not som Adverbs compared?
    • Qu. 125. Are not Prepositions somtimes made Adverbs?
  • Of a CONJUNCTION.
    • Qu. 126. What is a Conjunction?
    • Qu. 127. How many sorts of Conjunctions bee there?
  • Of a PREPOSITION.
    • Qu. 128. What is a Preposition?
    • Qu. 129. What Cases do Prepositions serv to?
    • Qu. 130. How many serv to the Accusative?
  • Of an INTERJECTION.
    • Qu. 131. What is an Interjection?
    • Qu. 132. How many kinds of Interjections bee there?
  • part
  • SYNTAXIS, OR, CONSTRUCTION
    • I. Of the Concordance of words.
      • I. Concord.
      • II. Concord.
      • III. Concord.
        • The Rule of the Relatives.
        • The Rule of Question and Answer.
    • II. Of the Government of words.
      • I. The Rule of Noun-Substantives.
      • The Rules of Adjectives.
        • ¶ Adjectives governing a Genitive Case.
        • ¶ Adjectives governing a Dative Case.
        • ¶ Adjectives governing an Accusative Case.
        • ¶ Adjectives governing an Ablative Case.
      • The Rules of Pronouns.
      • The Rules of Verbs.
        • ¶ Verbs governing a Nominative Case.
        • ¶ Verbs governing a Genitive Case.
        • ¶ Verbs governing a Dative Case.
        • ¶ Verbs governing an Accusative Case.
        • ¶ Verbs governing an Ablative Case.
        • ¶ Construction of Verbs Passives.
        • ¶ The Rule of the Infinitive Mood.
        • ¶ The Rule of Gerunds.
        • ¶ The Rules of Supines.
    • The Construction of Time, Space, and Place.
      • ¶ The Rule of Time.
      • ¶ The Rule of Space, or distance of Place.
      • ¶ The Rule of Place.
      • ¶ The Construction of Verbs Impersonals.
      • ¶ The Construction of Participles.
      • ¶ The Construction of Adverbs.
      • ¶ The Construction of Conjunctions.
      • ¶ Of Prepositions.
      • ¶ Of Interjections.
  • A brief Explanation of the Rules in Propria quae Maribus, and Quae Genus, concerning Nouns; and of As in Praesenti, concerning Verbs: The Declining and Conjugating whereof, the young Scholar may learn in the INDEX following; where every word comprehended in those Rules is Alphabe∣tically set down.
    • ¶ Propria quae maribus, &c. i. e.
    • ¶ Propria foemineum, &c. i. e.
    • ¶ Appellativa arborum, &c. i. e.
    • ¶ Sunt etiam valucrum, &c. i. e.
    • ¶ Omne quod exit in um, &c. i. e.
  • There bee Three Special Rules, thus distinguished.
    • I. Special Rule.
      • ¶ Nomen non crescens, &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Mascula Nomina in a, &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Neutrum nomen in e, &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Incerti generis &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Compositum verbo &. i. e.
    • II. Special Rule.
      • ¶ Nomen crescentis penultima si Genitivi Syllaba acuta sonat, &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Mascula dicuntur monosyllaba &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Sunt neutralia & haec monosyllaba &c., i. e.
      • ¶ Sunt dubia haec Python, &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Sunt commune, parens, &c. i. e.
    • III. Special Rule.
      • ¶ Nomen crescentis penultima si Genitivi Sit Gravis, &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Foeminei generis sit hyperdissyllabon, &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Est neutrale genus, &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Sunt dubii generis &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Communis generis sunt ista &c. i. e.
    • Rules for Adjectives.
      • ¶ Adjectiva unam &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Sub gemina si voce cadant &c. i. e.
      • ¶ At si tres variant voces &c. i. e.
      • ¶ At sunt quae flexu &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Hc proprium quendam &c. i. e.
  • Quae Genus explained.
    • ¶ Quae genus aut flexum &c. i. e.
    • I. VARIANTIA GENUS.
      • ¶ Haec genus ac partim &c.—i e.
      • ¶ Dat prior his numerus &c—i e.
      • ¶ Haec maribus dantur &c. i. e
    • II. DEFECTIVA.
      • ¶ Quae nullum variant casum &c. i e.
      • ¶ Estque Monoptoton &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Sunt Diptota &c i. e.
      • ¶ Tres quibus inflectis casus &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Quae referunt &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Propria cuncta notes &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Hordea, farra, forum. &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Hesperus, & vesper &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Singula foeminei generis &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Nec licet his neutris &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Mascula sunt tantùm &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Hoec sunt foeminei generis &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Rariùs haec primo &c. i. e.
    • III. Redundantia.
      • ¶ Haec quasi luxuriant &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Sed tibi praeterea &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Vertitur his rectus &c. i. e.
      • ¶. Haec simul & quarti &c. i. e.
      • ¶ Et quae luuriant &c. i. e.
  • As in praesenti explained.
    • ¶ As in presenti &c. i. e.
    • ¶ Es in prsenti &c. i. e.
    • ¶ Terti prteritum &c. i e.
    • ¶ Quarta dat is, ivi; &c. i. e.
    • ¶ Praeteritum dat idem &c. i. e:
    • ¶ Verba haec simplicia &c. i. e.
    • ¶ Haec, habeo, lao &c i. e.
    • ¶ Haec si compon &c. i. e
    • ¶ Nunc expraeterito &c. ie.
    • ¶ Compositum u simplex &c. i. e.
    • ¶ Verba in Or admittunt &c. ie.
    • ¶ Prateritum Active &c. i. e.
    • ¶ Neutropassivum &c. i. e.
    • ¶ Quaedam praeteritum verba &c. i. e.
    • ¶ Praeterium sugiunt &c. i. e.
    • ¶ Haec rarò aut nunquam &c. i. e.
• An INDEX of the NOUNS in Propria quae maribus, and Quae genus: and of the VERBS in As in praesenti: with their Interpretation, Declension and Conju∣gation, placed Alphabetically; for the benefit of young Beginners.
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