Gwynne's Latin : the ultimate introduction to Latin including the Latin in everyday English /: the ultimate introduction to Latin including the Latin in everyday English. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: N.M. Gwynne.
• Authors: Gwynne, N. M
• Contents: Preface -- Part one. Introductory. 1. About Latin ; 2. Making the best use of this book ; 3. The importance of learning Latin, examined in detail ; 4. Is this how to learn Latin ; 5. How in fact to learn Latin -- Part two. Final preliminaries. 6. What you need to know before starting: general grammar ; 7. What you need to know before starting: all about verbs ; 8. What you need to know before starting: how to pronounce Latin -- . Part three. Into battle. 9. Mēnsa and annus in ful; present and future simple tenses of amō and sum; the theory of principal parts; the principal coordinating conjunctions; our first adverbs; basic Latin word order ; 10. Second declension in full; remaining active indicative tenses of amō and sum; some more adverbs; and our first prepositions ; 11. Starting on moneō, regō and audiō; and the adjectives of the first two declensions in full ; 12. The personal and reflexive pronouns; the possessive adjectives; the demonstrative, definitive, and emphatic pronouns; the pronominal adjectives; the numbers; and the most straightforward questions ; 13. The passive indicatives; the third declension nouns; the third declension adjectives; adverbs of all the declensions; and participles and gerundives ; 14. . The deponent verbs, regular and irregular; semi-deponent verbs; fourth and fifth declension nouns; some important information about prepositions; more on participles; special uses of the vocative, accusative genitive, dative and ablative cases, including when time and space are dealt with ; 15. To be able, to want, not to want, to prefer; to go, to bear, to become, and even to eat; also to begin, to remember, to hate, and to say; the impersonal verbs; infinitives and gerunds; comparatives and superlatives of adjectives and adverbs ; 16. Introduction to translating from Latin into English; also, the relative and interrogative pronouns and their use ; 17. Subjunctives, imperatives, infinitives and gerunds ; 18. No more accidence, but: subsidiary clauses of all kinds; indirect statements and sequence of tenses ; 19. Word order ; 20. Rather less seriously -- Afterword -- Answers to translation exercises -- Reference grammar -- Vocabulary English - Latin -- Vocabulary Latin - English -- . The Latin used in everyday English -- Further reading -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Ebury Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 478.2421; Gift books; Latin language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- English; Latin language; Textbooks -- for English speakers; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781448177929; 1448177928
• Related ISBNs: 9780091957438; 0091957435
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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