#gerundives

[fieriframes]

[Gerundives.]

[alandapre]

Far from perfect grammar

My Grammar School inconveniently forgot to teach me grammar. Fact. We had a few lessons about verbs…

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[jeffreyfrancoeur]

how the fuck do i translate a gerund/gerundive in latin

[homerandcicero]

Little Latin Reader

44.2 - To this about to be learned, before he made the attempt, suitable to be thought he sent Caius Volusenus with a battleship. He (CV) orders that it must explore all things, and that it return to him as soon as possible. 44.4 - At the opportune time, to be thought to attack and to join the unfavorable battle, he holds his position and, having interrupted for a short time, he had brought the legions in to camp. 42.1 - I may doubt when you lead, I may doubt when you try, I may doubt when you plan that I neither hear nor see clearly nor discern.

[latin-student-problems]

[wolfandfox]

Social snobbery: a gerund 'cuts' a gerundive.  (Ronald Searle's St. Custard's)

I've had this image on my desk at every production job.  (In sympathy with the gerundive. Obvs.)