G D A Sharpley

The Complete Latin Course

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The ideal introduction to the world of ancient Rome for students and armchair enthusiasts alike, this text presents a comprehensive survey of the language, life and customs of a culture that continues to influence our own.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 710g
• ISBN-13: 9780415596459
• ISBN-10: 0415596459
• Artikelnr.: 30881087

Autorenporträt

G.D.A. Sharpley taught all levels of Latin at the University of Bristol for over twenty years. He is a director of Lingua, the UK language-training organisation, where he is responsible for the development of learning materials in several modern languages as well as Latin, and he manages the Latin Qvarter which runs courses and creates texts, recordings and short films for students of Latin. 　

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Latin alphabet 1. Myth, legend and history Nouns and verbs; Nouns: subjects and objects; Negative; Articles the and a; Word order; 'Object' of est; Verbs; and; Cases; Nominative case; Accusative case; English pronouns to add in translation; his, her or their in place of the/a. 2. The Republic Genitive case; Dative case; Ablative case; Prepositions; Vocative case; est and sunt. 3. Carthage Singular and plural: Nominative and Accusative plural; Genitive, dative and ablative plural; Gender; Neuter nouns; puella, servus, v
num. 4. Greece Questions; Adjectives; bonus,-a,-um; Nouns: puer, magister, vir; Adjectives: miser,-era,-erum; noster,-tra,-trum; Adjectives as nouns. 5. New factions and old families Genitive and dative expressing ownership; Past participles; Past participles with est or sunt; Translating past participles; sum, esse. 6. The Republic under strain Verbs; 1st conjugation: present tense; Separate pronouns as subjects; The infinitive; The perfect tense; Principal parts; Missing words or words 'understood'; More adjectives acting as nouns. 7. Friends and enemies 2nd conjugation verbs: present and perfect tenses; 3rd declension nouns; Him, her and them; His and her. 8 Civil War 3rd declension nouns (neuter); 3rd declension adjectives; Possessive adjectives. 9. The Ides of March 3rd, 4th and Mixed conjugation verbs: present and perfect tenses; All present and perfect tenses. 10. A woman in politics 4th declension nouns; -us endings; domus; Irregular verbs: sum, possum, vol
, e
, fer
; Verbs followed by an infinitive. 11. Politics and marriage Imperfect tense; Imperfect tense of irregular verbs; Pluperfect tense; Numbers. 12. The sweetness of peace 5th declension nouns; Future tense; Future tense of irregular verbs; Imperatives; Uses of the accusative; Uses of the ablative.13, Dissenting voices Future perfect tense; Tenses review; Principal parts review; Compound verbs. 14. Songs and suppers Passive voice; Present, future and imperfect passive; Perfect and pluperfect passive; 1st and 2nd person pronouns. 3rd person pronouns: hic, ille, is, s
, ipse. 15. Tales of love Introducing the subjunctive; Present subjunctive; Deponent verbs; 16. Women: warriors, drunks and literary critics Imperfect subjunctive; ut and n
; Purpose clauses; Sequence of tenses; Indirect commands; Result clauses; ut with the indicative; Perfect subjunctive; Pluperfect subjunctive; cum; Verbs of fearing; Indirect questions; Summary: ut and n
. 17. Family ties Interrogative pronoun and adjective; Relative pronoun and adjective; Correlative pronouns; Indefinite pronoun and adjective; Summary: quis/ qü; More adjectives: alius, t
tus, n
llus,
llus and s
lus. 18. Slavery quod; quam; aliquis; alter; quisquis; quisquam; quisque; qüdam; qü and qü. 19. Education Adjectives; Adverbs; Comparison; Comparative adverbs; The superlative; Superlative adverbs. 20. Negotium: Life at work Past participles; Ablative absolute; Present participles; Future participles; Translating participles. 21. Otium: Life at leisure Conditional clauses; Translating conditionals; Partitive genitive; Irregular verbs: vol
, n
l
, m
l
; Irregular verb: fi
. 22 Fugit irreparabile tempus Infinitives; Reported speech; Accusative & Infinitive; Infinitives: present, past and future; Translating the Accusative & Infinitive; 'Third party' subjunctive; More on s
and suus. 23. On the edge of the world English gerunds; Latin gerunds; Gerundives. 24. Gods and spirits Impersonal verbs; Transitive and intransitive verbs; Revision of the uses of the subjunctive 25. Rough justice Words working in pairs; Cases review: nominative, accusative, genitive 26. Christianity Cases review: dative, ablative. > English vocabulary English > Latin vocabulary