Writing Latin

James Morwood, Richard Ashdowne

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781853997013
• eBook ISBN: 9781472502773
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Ancient Languages
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• 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
• Longer passages
• Numbers and dates
• The top Latin irregular verbs
• English – Latin vocabulary
• Index