Relative Pronouns and Relative Clauses in Latin
Learn how relative clauses work in English and Latin. Understand the use of relative pronouns and how they relate to the main sentence. Analyze and translate sentences for yourself. Perfect for students of Latin preparing for exams. Part of a comprehensive series on Latin grammar.
What you’ll learn
- Learn how relative clauses work in English
- Learn how to recognise and to form the relative pronouns in Latin
- Learn how to understand the use of relative clauses in Latin
- Be able to work out sample sentences for yourself
This course of lectures seeks to explain the use of relative pronouns in a Latin sentence. Students often find the rules here confusing – that is, how a relative pronoun must take its number and gender from the noun in the main sentence to which it relates, but its case from what function it performs in its own relative clause.
These lectures begin with an explanation of relative pronouns and relative clauses in English. This is the language that the students likely to watch these videos know either perfectly or at least very well. Because English and Latin were, until about five thousand years ago, the same language, what works in one language usually (sort of) works in the other. You can just about show distinctions of case in English relative clauses. You can also, with a bit of shoe-horning, show distinctions of gender.
So we begin with a short explanation of relative clauses in English. From this, we pass to the forms of the relative pronoun in Latin, and after this to an explanation of how Latin relative clauses work. Relative clauses in every case are analysed and explained. There is a final lecture in which students are invited to analyse and translate sentences for themselves.
This course is part of a larger series covering all the main areas of Latin grammar. If you enjoyed this course, and found it useful, please consider viewing the growing series of other courses.
Who this course is for:
- Students of Latin for GCSE or the National Latin Exam, or any other early examination in the language
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