Indirect Statement Basics I think that Jon Bon Jovi is awesome OK these are really the basics Triggered by head verbs eg thinking perceiving knowing saying hearing feeling realizing knowing hoping etc ID: 810908
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Slide1
Indirect Statement!!!
What do we remember??
Slide2Indirect Statement Basics!!!
I think that Jon Bon Jovi is awesome.
Slide3O.K., these are really the basics!
Triggered by “head” verbs e.g. “thinking, perceiving, knowing, saying, hearing, feeling, realizing, knowing, hoping, etc.”Direct Statement:Jon Bon Jovi is awesome.
Indirect Statement:I think THAT Jon Bon Jovi is awesome.Subject is in the ACCUSATIVE CASEVerb is an INFINITIVE;
it must agreewith the accusative subject.
Slide4Practice…
DIRECT STATEMENT:Jon
Bongiovi est optimus.
INDIRECT STATEMENT:putō Jon Bongiovum
esse
optimum.
Translate the following indirect statements.
dīcis
sōlem
occidere
.scio matrem venīre.3. putant vōs vocare mē.What happens when the infinitive is in another tense??
Slide5When tenses of the infinitive change…
Tense of the infinitive: indicates the action of the ind. state. takes place BEFORE
, at the SAME TIME as, or AFTER the verb that triggers it i.e. the “
head” verb. PRESENT = at the Same Time
PERFECT
= Before
FUTURE
= After
d
ī
cis
solem iam occidisse.dīcis solem occidere.dīcis solem occasurum
esse.sciēbam
m
ā
trem ventūram esse.putābam virōs vocatōs esse.