Year 4C · Grade 8: Perfect and Passive Signals
Spot completed-action endings and passive voice clues.
What to notice
- perfect active
- passive voice
- principal parts
Examples
- duxi — I led. duxi uses the perfect stem dux- and means I led.
- duxit — he/she led. duxit means he, she, or it led.
- duxerunt — they led. duxerunt means they led.
- passive voice — the subject receives the action. In passive voice, the subject receives the action.
- amatus sum — I was loved / I have been loved. amatus sum combines the perfect passive participle with sum.