Writing Latin
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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Writing Latin
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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Writing Latin

Writing Latin

Writing Latin

Writing Latin

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472502780
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 03/31/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Richard Ashdowne is engaged in research in linguistics at the University of Oxford, UK.

James Morwood was an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, UK. He is the author of many books, including The Plays of Euripides also published by Bloomsbury.
James Morwood was an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, UK, after seventeen years as Head of Classics at Harrow School. He is the author of 17 books, including The Plays of Euripides and Writing Latin, also published by Bloomsbury.
Richard Ashdowne read Classics at New College, Oxford and is now engaged in research in linguistics at the University of Oxford, UK.

Table of 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
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