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17. Gotta love those participles! Translate the participle form in the following sentence: "I am about to eat dinner". Esurus /-a Bonus: Keeping everything else the same, make that sentence plural and translate into Latin. Esuri /-ae sumus cenam. 18. The name of the months are nouns in English. What part of speech are they in Latin? Adjectives . Bonus: The words "yesterday," "today," and "tomorrow" are adverbs in English. What part of speech are they in Latin? Adverbs . 19. Who were the pious couple from Phrygia who unwittingly entertained Hermes and Zeus in their humble cottage? Baucis and Philemon. Bonus: Into what type of trees were Baucis and Philemon transformed? Oak and linden. 20. The 4th declension has only a few neuter nouns, and only two of them are at all common. Name them. Genu, cornu. Bonus: But the 4th declension has a fair number of feminine nouns. Name just one. Manus, domus, porticus, acus, anus, etc.