Understanding language : a guide for beginning students of Greek and Latin / Donald Fairbairn.
Publisher: Washington, District of Columbia : Catholic University of America Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations, tablesContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813219073
- 0813219078
- Greek language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Latin
- Latin language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Greek
- Greek language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- English
- Latin language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- English
- RELIGION -- General
- Greek language
- Greek language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Latin
- Latin language
- Latin language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Greek
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- PA111 .F35 2011eb
Includes index.
Print version record.
Getting started. Learning a foreign language: the bad news and the good news -- Studying a dead language: why bother? -- Building blocks of language -- Nouns and the words that go with them. Expressing the relations between nouns -- Adjectives, articles, and pronouns -- Verbs: the heart of communication. What do verbs do? -- Finite verb forms: a closer look at tense and mood -- Special (non-finite) verbal forms: infinitives and participles -- Looking at sentences as a whole -- Words, phrases, clauses: putting them together -- Reading a Greek or Latin sentence: some suggestions.
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