Thus if you wanted to use this text in coordination with a class in Cicero, for example, you could easily do this by selecting the seven chapters that contain excerpts from Cicero and perhaps ignoring the others. If you have the luxury of teaching an entire semester of composition, you might simply follow the order of the book. The twenty-five chapters (180 pages) supply more than enough material to keep a class busy for one semester.Īs a sample of the methodology here is an outline of Chapter 10 on Impersonal Verbs. First, reference is given to the sections in the grammars of Allen & Greenough and Bradley’s Arnold where detailed explanations regarding impersonal verbs may be found. Then comes a short paragraph from Thomas More’s Utopia.

Although the passage contains no examples of this construction, the first exercise asks students to rewrite ten sentences using licet, oportet and necesse est (an example is given). Sentence #1 is ” Aegroti publicis in hospitiis sunt curandi. (necessity)” The Answer Key provides two versions: ” Publicis in hospitiis curare aegrotis necesse est” and ” Publicis in hospitiis curentur aegroti necesse est.” Another selection from the text of Utopia is given, followed by exercises.

One requires completing the blanks of nine sentences with words from a list of eight impersonal verbs ( interest, pudet, miseret, refert, taedet, paenitet and piget).

Necesse est construction