Indirect Questions from "Our Living Heritage"

The idea in the next few posts is to study a classic topic of Latin II from different Latin textbooks.  We will look at the Indirect Questions and see how each author deals with the subject.

Today we will start with the Our Living Heritage

Good start with such a cover!  I still remember walking in the room of the Capitoline Museum in Rome and finding myself face to face with Cicero, I almost teared up . . .


-Great definition of the particular clause
-List of the three "ingredients" needed
-Long list of types of intro verbs required
-Detailed explanation of time

-Superb explanation of the time sequence.
-I have to admit that I had never seen posteriority expressed with FAP and sim.  It makes sense.  I always taught to use the present or the imperfect to express the same thing.



 -And the exposé ends with some curiosities with a mention of relative clauses,  UTRUM, AN, -NE

SUMMARY:  ✩✩✩✩
My type of explanation.  Thorough description and coverage of the clause. Appeals to the high faculties of the student.  Engages him, challenges him, . . .  This is the kind of stuff that is pushing for excellence.

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