A completely new guide to writing Latin from scratch, this user-friendly book includes key features such as: broad coverage - all the major grammatical constructions of the Latin language are covered, reinforcing what students have learnt from reading Latin; thorough accessible explanations - no previous experience of writing in Latin assumed; hundreds of examples - clear accurate illustrations of the constructions described, all with full translations; over six hundred practice sentences - graduated exercises leading students through three levels of difficulty from elementary to advanced level; introduction to Latin word order - a brief guide to some of the most important principles; and, longer passages for practising continuous prose composition - more challenging passages to stretch the most able students.It also includes features such as: commentaries on examples of Latin prose style - passages from great Latin prose writers focus attention on imitating real Latin usage; and, complete list of vocabulary - all the words needed for the exercises and a valuable reference for English-Latin work in general.
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A guide to writing Latin from scratch, covering various major grammatical constructions of the Latin language, reinforcing what students have learnt from reading Latin. It contains longer passages for practising continuous prose composition.
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Introduction
About this book
Use of the cases I
Use of the cases II
Time, place and space
Participles
Relative clauses *
Prepositions
Use of tenses
Pronouns
Reported statements
Questions
Commands *
Verbs
Time clauses *
Purpose clauses
Conditionals *
Result clauses
Because, although, as if
Reported speech
Gerunds and gerundives *
Verbs of fearing
quin and quominus
Word order *
Latin prose style
Cicero: Regulus
Cicero: A good man
Caesar: The Nervii offer terms to the Romans
Livy: The rape of Lucretia
Tacitus: The death of Seneca
Longer passages
Numbers and dates
The top Latin irregular verbs
English – Latin vocabulary
Index
* These chapters are followed by one or two Further practice passages
Les mer
A guide to writing Latin from scratch, covering various major grammatical constructions and prose passages, reinforcing what students have learnt from reading Latin.
Completely new, user friendly, guide to writing Latin from scratch
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781853997013
Publisert
2007-06-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Bristol Classical Press
Vekt
314 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192