by Jeff Tirey » Wed Sep 24, 2003 7:02 pm
Discuss "Formation of the Perfect Stems: Why are they so unusual?" by our very own Benissimus!<br /><br />Introduction:<br />When Latin students first encounter the perfect tense, the number of principal parts for verbs suddenly doubles. To add to this complication, these new parts appear to be formed at random... or are they? This tutorial is designed to explain why Latin developed these irregular verbal parts and hopefully to attune the reader to how verbs, and even words in general, are formed.<br /><br />Read the entire tutorial here:<br />http://www.textkit.com/tutorials/20030923-perfect-stems-page1.php?aid=3&tid=3
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