Chapter 41, Drill b: practice changing direct statement to indirect.

Each of the short Latin sentences below is followed by a verb of saying, telling, reporting, feeling, etc. Change the short direct statement to the indirect form following the verb of saying etc. by rewriting the subject (noun or pronoun) and the verb in the correct forms (leaving out final punctuation).

Example:
"duos annos carmina scripsi." Quintus dixit Answer: se scripsisse (use se since Quintus was already subject of the main verb but, as the implied ego of scripsi, it is subject of the infinitive and refers back to the subject of the main verb.

"fessus est!" Vergilius dixit Answer: eum esse (since Vergilius is referring to someone else, the third-person subject of the main verb, use eum; since the time is the same time as the main verb, use present infinitive).

1. "omnes carmina mea laudant." Quintus Vergilio dixit
2. "Aeneas [accusative Aeneam] Romam condidit." Romani postea credebant
3. "Quintus vinum condidit." scimus )
4. "Quintus vinum proximo [next] anno condet." Vergilius sperat
5. "liber carminum confectus est." Quintus dicit
6. "Quintus librum nunc conficit." scio
7. "liber nunc a Quinto conficitur." Vergilius gavisus est
8. "ver redibit." speramus
9. "mare undis horret." Quintus scripsit
10. "aves in silvis queruntur." Quintus scripsit
11. "beatus forum vitat." Quintus scripsit
12. "forum a beatis vitatur. credunt
13. "beati forum vitant." Quintus credidit
14. "beatus sub arbore iacet." Quintus scripsit
15. "greges in valle errant." Quintus scripsit
16. "Alfius erit rusticus." Quintus ridens scripsit
17. "aves in arboribus canent." speramus
18. "iuvenes colloquuntur." Quintus refert
19. "milites de clade collocuti sunt." Quintus cognovit
20. "otio fruor." Quintus saepe dicebat
21. "militia non fructus sum." Quintus negavit
22. "Marcus carmina mea admiratur." Quintus cognovit
23. "haec urbs sublata est." imperator nuntiavit
24. "Quintus maximam artem habet." Vergilius agnovit
25. "novum poetam inveni." Marcus dicebat
26. "novus poeta invenitur." Marcus dicebat
27. "novus poeta inventus est." Marcus dicebat
28. "diu cupio te cognoscere." Vergilius Quinto dixit
29. "poema componere conor." Vergilius Quinto dixit
30. "huc veniet" (referring to Quintus). Vergilius speravit

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