TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fairbairn,Donald
TI  - Understanding language: a guide for beginning students of Greek and Latin 
SN  - 9780813219073
AV  - PA111 .F35 2011eb
U1  - 485 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Washington, District of Columbia
PB  - Catholic University of America Press
KW  - Greek language
KW  - Grammar, Comparative
KW  - Latin
KW  - Latin language
KW  - Greek
KW  - Textbooks for foreign speakers
KW  - English
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Textbooks
KW  - for English speakers
N1  - 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
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