Do you know?

• Subjects DO actions - The dog bites the man.

• Direct objects receive actions - The dog bites the man.

• In English, subjects come BEFORE verbs

• Direct objects come AFTER verbs

Word order

English uses word order to tell you what is the subject and direct object.

Latin is NOT English

(in case you forgot)

What, what?

• look carefully at the sentence -

• Catia canem videt & canem Catia videt

• the 'a' ending says that Catia is the subject

• the 'm' ending says that canem is the direct object

• it DOES NOT MATTER in Latin WHERE THE WORD IS!

It's all about the ENDINGS