Understanding language
Subtitle: a guide for beginning students of Greek and Latin
By: Donald Fairbairn
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780813218663
Subjects: Greek language; Comparative Grammar; Latin; Latin language; Greek; Textbooks for foreign speakers; English
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Getting started. Learning a foreign language: the bad news and the good news; title: Studying a dead language: why bother?; title: Building blocks of language; title: Nouns and the words that go with them.  Expressing the relations between nouns; title: Adjectives, articles, and pronouns; title: Verbs: the heart of communication. What do verbs do?; title: Finite verb forms: a closer look at tense and mood; title: Special (non-finite) verbal forms: infinitives and participles; title: Looking at sentences as a whole; title: Words, phrases, clauses: putting them together; title: Reading a Greek or Latin sentence: some suggestions.