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Understanding language : a guide for beginning students of Greek and Latin / Donald Fairbairn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fairbairn, Donald.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greek language--Grammar, Comparative--Latin.
- Greek language.
- Latin language--Grammar, Comparative--Greek.
- Latin language.
- Greek language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.
- Latin language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, District of Columbia : Catholic University of America Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Understanding Language includes major sections on the noun and verb systems of the classical languages.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-1907-8
- OCLC:
- 861793399
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