Active Personal Endings

(sung to the tune of "The Mickey Mouse Song")

by Fay Abernethy

N.B. Spell the endings as you sing.

What are the names of the endings that we love so much

-o, -s, -t

-mus, -tis, -nt 

Latin endings, they're not Greek.

Forever let us hold our endings high, high, high

Come along and sing a song and join our family.

  -o, -s, -t

-mus, -tis, -nt      

Hey there, hi there, ho there,

We're happy as can be.

  -o, -s, -t

-mus, -tis, -nt

Passive Personal Endings (sung to the tune of "Yankee Doodle")

by David R. Pellegrino

N.B. spell the endings as you sing

-r, -ris, -tur

-mur, -mini, -ntur

Those are personal endings for passives.

Intransitive Verbs that Take the Dative Song

(sung to the tune of "Yankee Doodle")

by David R. Pellegrino & Lillian M. Hines

THREATEN, HARM, PLEASE, TRUST, RESIST,

PERSUADE, COMMAND, OBEY, SERVE,

PARDON, ENVY, FAVOR, SPARE,

BELIEVE all take the dative.

Compound Verbs with AD-, CON-, DE-,

IN-, INTER-, OB-, PRAE-, POST-,

ANTE-, PRO-, SUB-, SUPER-, too,

all sometimes take the dative.