The Vestibule of Comenius

In the Plural: original: "Pluraliter"

1. Look, there are two Blackboards. original: "Tabulæ Nigræ." In this context, a "black table" refers to the writing surface used in schools.
2. Parts of two Blackboards.
3. I will add something to two Blackboards.
4. I see two Blackboards.
5. O, two Blackboards!
6. I see something on two Blackboards.

6. However, it will be good not only to Decline: To list the different forms of a word based on its role in a sentence. individual things aloud in this way (by looking at the charts of the declensions), but also to write them down.

Therefore, once a few little sentences have been committed to memory in the first hour, let the students write their exercises in notebooks prepared for that purpose in the following hour; namely, the declensions of those same things they have learned, in the manner already described. This will serve as a prelude to their future exercises in writing style.

V. In the same manner (in chapter II and those following), let the Conjugations of Verbs Conjugation: The process of changing a verb's ending to show who is doing the action and when it is happening. be practiced. A table for these is also added at the end of the Vestibulum The "Vestibulum" (literally "The Porch") was Comenius's introductory textbook for children., so that in the meantime there is no need for any other summary of Grammar. But only the endings for the first form of the conjugations are provided: for it is enough that beginners have first learned these. We must carefully hide from students anything that might seem to threaten them with difficulty at first sight. And with that same intention, we have also concealed the Supines: A specific type of verbal noun used in Latin to show purpose., and Gerunds: A verb form that functions as a noun, such as "learning" or "writing.", and even the Infinitive forms of the past and future tenses, because they deviate from the customs of the students' native language. There will be plenty of time to learn those later,