Latin Grammar You Really Need to Know: A Teach Yourself Guide

✍ Scribed by Gregory Klyve

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 333
• Series: Teach Yourself
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Master Latin grammar, quickly and easily In Latin Grammar You Really Need to Know, you will find every integral grammar concept simply explained, each illustrated with lots of examples. Even if you do not know the grammatical term in question, the book is structured so that you can look up language forms according to what you want to say. With this comprehensive resource, you will gain the confidence to communicate comfortably in Latin. Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author’s many years of experience Tests in the book and online to keep track of progress Glossary of grammatical terms for easy reference

✦ Table of Contents

Meet the author vii
Introduction 1
1 Alphabet, pronunciation and terminology 5
2 Tenses (indicative active) 18
3 Nouns 42
4 Cases 69
5 Adjectives and adverbs 94
6 Prepositions, conjunctions and numerals 108
7 Pronouns and questions 120
8 Passive and deponent verbs 142
9 Subjunctive verbs 153
10 Verbal nouns and adjectives (participles, gerunds, supines and gerundives) 165
11 Infinitives and imperatives 176
12 Impersonal, defective and irregular verbs 187
13 Relative and temporal clauses, ablative absolute 207
14 Final, consecutive and conditional clauses 219
15 Indirect speech 234
16 Other subordinate clauses (clauses of concession, cause, proviso, comparison, fear, doubt and prevention, and the use of quin) 248
17 Miscellaneous (dates, money and measures, names, places, inscriptions, timeline, Latin today) 261
Key to the exercises 281

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Латинский язык;Грамматика;