Exercises
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HW 1
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HW 2
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HW 3
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Audio
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- On the Gerund page, watch the videos (Usage, Formation, Internal Sandhi and संप्रसारणम्) and complete their quiz. Feel free to ask questions about anything that remains unclear.
- Read through Deshpande’s list of gerunds and make sure that you understand the forms given in terms of the standard rules of formation, sandhi and संप्रसारण.
- On the Flashcards page, begin your internalization of gerunds. Pay special attention to which roots weaken and in which way, as well as whether they take the -इ suffix or not.
- Complete Exercises 1.4-5 and 1.7-8 by turning their sentences into gerund constructions.
- Complete Exercises 1.30-40 and 2.26-30 to hand in at the beginning of class.
- Listen to Deshpande’s reading of the story in the audio recording below and practice reading the Sanskrit with him, focusing on correctly pronouncing retroflexes, dentals and aspirates.
- Continue working your way through the gerunds’ and infinitives’ flashcards so that you are correctly anticipating the -इ roots as well as internal sandhi.
- Complete Exercises 1.20-29 and 2.1-4 to hand in at the beginning of class.
- Listen to Deshpande’s reading of the Sanskrit sentences in the audio recording in the tab above and practice along with him, focusing on correctly pronouncing retroflexes, dentals and aspirates.
- Continue working your way through the gerunds’ and infinitives’ flashcards so that you are correctly anticipating the -इ roots as well as internal sandhi.