Classical Latin: An Introductory Course (Google eBook)

JC McKeown

Hackett Publishing, 2010 - Foreign Language Study - 421 pages

Extensively field-tested and fine-tuned over many years, and designed specifically for a one-year course, J C McKeown's "Classical Latin: An Introductory Course" offers a thorough, fascinating, and playful grounding in Latin that combines the traditional grammatical method with the reading approach. In addition to grammar, paradigms, and readings, each chapter includes a variety of extraordinarily well-crafted exercises that reinforce the grammar and morphology while encouraging the joy of linguistic and cultural discovery.

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Contents

• The Present Active Indicative Imperative and Infinitive of Verbs: 1
• First Declension Nouns Prepositions: 15
• The Future and Imperfect Active Indicative of Verbs: 29
• Direct Questions Irregular Verbs Compound Verbs: 39
• Second Declension Nouns: 51
• First and Second Declension Adjectives and Adverbs: 60
• The Perfect Active Indicative System of Verbs: 71
• Third Declension Nouns: 84
• Third Declension Adjectives and Adverbs: 93
• Volo Nolo Malo Numbers Nouns of Limited Form and Variable Meaning: 102
• Fourth and Fifth Declension Nouns: 115
• Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adjectives and Adverbs: 125
• Correlative Adjectives and Adverbs Irregular Adjectives: 138
• The Passive Voice of Verbs: 149
• Deponent and SemiDeponent Verbs Expressions of Time and Place: 164
• Particular Uses of Cases: 176
• Pronouns I Intransitive Verbs with the Dative: 191
• Pronouns II Intransitive Verbs with the Genitive or Ablative: 206
• Participles: 218
• Gerunds and Gerundives the Supine: 234
• Indirect Statement: 245
• The Subjunctive Mood of Verbs in Main Clauses: 259
• The Present and Imperfect Subjunctive in Subordinate Clauses I: 277
• The Present and Imperfect Subjunctive in Subordinate Clauses II: 290
• All Subjunctive Tenses in Subordinate Clauses: 302
• Variations in the Mood of Verb I Conditional Sentences: 313
• Variations in the Mood of the Verb II cum dum etc: 323
• Impersonal Verbs: 337
• Latin Readings: 351
• The Forms of Nouns Pronouns Adjectives and Verbs: 362
• Indeclinable Words: 377
• EnglishLatin Vocabulary: 381
• LatinEnglish Vocabulary: 395
• Index by Subject: 409
• Index Auctorum: 415
• List of Illustrations and Credits: 417

Bibliographic information

• Title: Classical Latin: An Introductory Course
• Author: JC McKeown
• Publisher: Hackett Publishing, 2010
• ISBN: 1603843930, 9781603843935
• Length: 421 pages
• Subjects: Foreign Language Study / Latin