Year 3 · Grade 5: Subject or Object?
Use endings to tell who acts and who receives the action.
What to notice
- nominative
- accusative
- Latin word order
Examples
- domina — the subject. domina ends in -a and is the one doing the loving.
- filiam — the direct object. filiam ends in -am and receives the action of amat.
- Filiam domina amat. — The lady loves her daughter.. domina is still the subject and filiam is still the direct object.
- dominam — the lady as direct object. dominam is the direct object, so the daughter loves the lady.
- amat — he/she loves. amat means he, she, or it loves; the subject tells which one.