BookUnderstanding language : a guide for beginning students of Greek and Latin
Personal name
Main title
- Understanding language : a guide for beginning students of Greek and Latin / Donald Fairbairn.
Published/Created
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2011.
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Description
- xxiv, 190 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN
- 9780813218663 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LC classification
- PA111 .F35 2011
Contents
- 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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Notes
- Includes index.
LCCN
- 2010050051
Dewey class no.
- 485
Type of material
- Book
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- PA111 .F35 2011
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- c.1 In Process 07-21-2011
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