OCR Latin AS/A Level Linguistic Content

Candidates, at both AS and A2, are expected to be familiar with the language of authors of the 1^st Century BC and the 1st Century AD, employing the following linguistic structures:

(i) Accidence:

Declension of all nouns and adjectives of all standard types, together with domus, Iuppiter and vis;

Adjectives of all standard types, from all three declensions;

Formation of adverbs;

Comparison of adjectives and adverbs;

Pronouns and pronominal adjectives;

Verbs of all standard types from all conjugations in all moods, voices and tenses, together with deponent, semi-deponent, defective, irregular and impersonal verbs. (Knowledge of the imperative in -to, -tote is confined to memini and sum);

Cardinal and ordinal numerals;

The use of prepositions and standard meanings of prepositional prefixes.

(ii) Syntax

Negation;

Direct statement, question (including deliberative) and command;

Prohibitions, exhortations and wishes;

Subordinate clauses and other constructions as listed:

• Indirect statement (including extended oratio obliqua), question, command and prohibition;
• Description (relative clauses, including common uses with the subjunctive);
• Purpose (including uses of the gerund and gerundive);
• Result (including the use of the comparative with quam ut);
• Conditional;
• Causal;
• Temporal (definite and indefinite);
• Subordinate clauses within indirect speech;
• Fearing, prevention and precaution;
• Concessive.

Other uses of the infinitive (as subject and as complement; prolative; historic);

Uses of the participle, including ablative absolute;

Comparison;

Other uses of the gerund and gerundive;

Constructions involving quominus and quin;

Use of dum and dummodo to mean ‘provided that’.

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(Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations)