Full Description
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.
Contents
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
