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Informationen zum Autor James Morwood and Richard Ashdowne Klappentext 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. Vorwort A guide to writing Latin from scratch, covering various major grammatical constructions and prose passages, reinforcing what students have learnt from reading Latin. Zusammenfassung A guide to writing Latin from scratch, covering various major grammatical constructions of the Latin language, reinforcing what students have learnt from reading Latin. It contains longer passages for practising continuous prose composition. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
About the author
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.
