Understanding language :
Fairbairn, Donald.
Understanding language : a guide for beginning students of Greek and Latin / Donald Fairbairn. - 1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations, tables
Includes index.
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.
9780813219073 0813219078
22573/ctt3ck5d6 JSTOR
Greek language--Grammar, Comparative--Latin.
Latin language--Grammar, Comparative--Greek.
Greek language--English.--Textbooks for foreign speakers
Latin language--English.--Textbooks for foreign speakers
RELIGION--General.
Greek language.
Greek language--Grammar, Comparative--Latin.
Latin language.
Latin language--Grammar, Comparative--Greek.
Electronic books.
Textbooks--for English speakers.
PA111 / .F35 2011eb
485
Understanding language : a guide for beginning students of Greek and Latin / Donald Fairbairn. - 1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations, tables
Includes index.
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.
9780813219073 0813219078
22573/ctt3ck5d6 JSTOR
Greek language--Grammar, Comparative--Latin.
Latin language--Grammar, Comparative--Greek.
Greek language--English.--Textbooks for foreign speakers
Latin language--English.--Textbooks for foreign speakers
RELIGION--General.
Greek language.
Greek language--Grammar, Comparative--Latin.
Latin language.
Latin language--Grammar, Comparative--Greek.
Electronic books.
Textbooks--for English speakers.
PA111 / .F35 2011eb
485
