Hildegard of Bingen

On the Winds

Latin Grammar: Purpose Clauses

Quatuor etiam cardinales uenti sub sole et super solem firmamento assunt et illud continent ac totum orbem, scilicet de inferiori parte usque ad superiorem partem firmamenti, sicut cum pallio circumdant. Orientalis enim uentus erem complectitur et suauissimum rorem super arida mittit. Ventus enim occidentis fluentibus nubibus se admiscet, ut aquas sustineat, ne erumpant. Australis uero uentus ignem in magistratione sua retinet et eum prohibet, ne omnia conburat. Ventus quoque septentrionalis exteriores tenebras retinet, ne modum suum excedant. Isti quatuor uenti ale potentie dei sunt. Qui cum simul mouebuntur, omnia elementa conplicabunt et se diuident ac mare concutient et omnes aquas exsiccabunt.

Purpose Clauses
To express the purpose of an action, Latin uses the conjunctions ut and ne plus the present or imperfect subjunctive in a construction called the "Purpose Clause."

The present subjunctive is used after verbs in the primary sequence (present, future and future perfect) and the imperfect after the secondary sequence (imperfect, perfect and pluperfect).

 

Section 1
This passage has three purpose clauses. Find them and copy/paste them in here in the order in which they appear above*:

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Section 2
Now provide the verbs for these sentences:

5. The boy eats so that he may live: Puer ut .

6. The soldier slept so that he would be strong: Miles ut .

7. The girl ran home so that the wolf would not devour her: Puella domum ne eam lupus .


Make this exercise printable

*Don't include punctuation, slashes, or ellipses (...)

Vocabulary for Section 2:
edo: to eat
curro: to run
quiesco
: to sleep
valeo: to be strong
voro: to devour