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Lesson 26 Review

This week we will review Indirect Questions.


Recall that Direct Questions are introduced by Interrogative Adverbs, Adjectives, Pronouns, and Particles,
and are asked directly to a person.
Indirect Questions are those that are dependent on a verb of asking, saying, thinking, hearing, knowing,
etc.
Indirect Questions are introduced by the same Interrogative Particles, Adverbs, Pronouns, and Adjectives
as Direct Questions are, except that:
1) Nonne is only used with quaero
2) num and ne mean whether or if
3) qui is sometimes used for quis
He asked why the soldiers were fighting.
I know where the enemys camp is.
Do you know whether that legion is armed?
Unlike direct questions, Indirect Questions are put in the Subjunctive Mood.
The tense of the Subjunctive verb is determined by Tense by Sequence, which says:
If the Main Clause
Verb is:_________

Primary

The Indirect Q. verb


must be Subjunctive and:

(now and forward: present,

Present or Perfect
(shE rEAds a dIAry (-erim, -eris, -erit, etc.

future, future perfect)

added to present stem) added to Perfect Stem)

Secondary
(any past tense: imperfect,
perfect, pluperfect)

Imperfect
(infinitive +
personal ending)

or

Pluperfect
(-issem, isses, isset, etc.
added to Perfect Stem)

Examples:
Caesar asks whether the soldiers are fighting. Caesar rogat num milites pugnent.
Caesar asks whether the soldiers fought. Caesar rogat num milites pugnaverint.
Caesar asked whether the soldiers were fighting. Caesar rogavit num milites pugnarent.
Caesar asked whether the soldiers had fought. Caesar rogavit num milites pugnavissent.

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