Latin/Conjunctions

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Today we'll expand our use of conjunctions. Conjunctions are those little words that join other words, phrases, or clauses. We have already encountered some of the basic ones:

New Vocabulary
Some subordinating conjunctions require use of the subjunctive mood, which won’t be introduced until much later; we will leave these until they can be introduced in context. Some conjunctions set up a temporal clause, which requires more verb tenses than just the present.

Note that there are 3 basic ways to say “and” = et, atque, and the enclitic –que. There are multiple ways to say “but” = sed, at (and others with slightly different shades of meaning). Some conjunctions are “postpositive.” This simply means that, by the rules of Latin syntax, they cannot stand first in a sentence or clause, but must appear after the first word or two.

We're including some sentences from literature and quotations without necessarily introducing all vocabulary in them. As it is there are a lot of sentences, and it is sometimes difficult to portray all the different shades of meaning possible with the Latin, so we apologize in advance if some of them are a bit off.

Practice
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