The complete Latin course
By: G.D.A. Sharpley
Contributors: Sharpley, G. D. A.
Edition: Second edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780415603898; 9780415596459
Subjects: Textbooks; Latin language; Grammar
Notes: Revised edition of: Essential Latin. 2000.

Includes indexes
Table of contents: title: The Latin alphabet; title: 1. Myth, legend and history. Nouns and verbs ; Nouns: subjects and objects ; Verbs ; The nominative case ; The accusative case ; Readings; title: 2. The Republic. The genitive case ; The dative case ; The ablative case ; Prepositions ; The vocative case ; est and sunt ; Readings; title: 3. Carthage. Singular and plural: nominative and accusative ; Genitive, dative and ablative plural ; Gender ; Neuter nouns ; Summary: puella, servus and vīnum ; Readings; title: 4. Greece. Questions ; Adjectives: bonus, bona, bonum ; Agreement of an adjective and noun ; 2nd declension nouns ending -er ; Adjectives as nouns ; Readings; title: 5. New factions and old families. Genitive and dative expressing ownership ; Past participles ; Past participles with est or sunt ; Translating past participles ; sum, esse ; Readings; title: 6. The Republic under strain. Verbs ; The present tense ; The infinitive ; The perfect tense ; Perfect stems ; Principal parts ; Principal parts: 1st conjugation ; Missing words or words 'understood' ; More adjectives acting as nouns ; Readings; title: 7. Friends and enemies. Verbs: 2nd conjugation ; 3rd declension nouns ; Him, her and them ; His and her ; Readings; title: 8. Civil war. 3rd declension nouns (neuter) ; '3rd declension' adjectives ; Possessive adjectives ; Readings; title: 7. Friends and enemies. Verbs: 2nd conjugation ; 3rd declension nouns ; Him, her and them ; His and her ; Readings; title: 8. Civil war. 3rd declension nouns (neuter) ; '3rd declension' adjectives ; Possessive adjectives ; Readings; title: 9. The Ides of March. Verbs: revision ; 3rd conjugation verbs ; 4th conjugation verbs ; Mixed conjugation verbs ; Summary: all five conjugations ; Readings; title: 10. A woman in politics. Nouns: 4th declension ; Irregular verbs: sum, possum, volō, eō, fero ̄; Verbs followed by an infinitive ; Readings; title: 11. Politics and marriage. Verbs: the imperfect tense ; The pluperfect tense ; Numbers ; Readings; title: 12. The sweetness of peace. Nouns: 5th declension ; The future tense ; The future tense of irregular verbs ; Imperatives ; Uses of the accusative ; Uses of the ablative ; Readings; title: 13. Dissenting voices. The future perfect tense ; Tenses review ; Principal parts review ; Compound verbs ; Readings; title: 14. Songs and suppers. The passive voice ; Personal pronouns: 1st and 2nd persons ; Personal pronouns: 3rd person ; hic, haec, hoc ; ille, illa, illud ; is, ea, id ; Reflexive pronoun: sē ; ipse, ipsa, ipsum ; Readings; title: 15. Tales of love. Introducing the subjunctive ; The present subjunctive ; Deponent verbs ; Readings; title: 16. Women: warriors, drunks and literary critics. The imperfect subjunctive ; ut or nē to express purpose ; Sequence of tenses: primary and historic ; ut or nē with an indirect command ; ut to express a consquence or result ; ut with the indicative ; The perfect subjunctive ; The pluperfect subjunctive ; The subjunctive after cum ; The subjunctive after a verb expressing fear ; The subjunctive in an indirect question ; Summary: ut and nē ; Readings; title: 17. Family ties. Interrogative: who, what or which asking a question ; Relative: who, which giving information ; Indefinite: any, anyone, anything ; Summary: quis/qui ; More adjectives: alius, tōtus, nūllus, ūllus and sōlus ; Readings; title: 18. Slavery. quam ; aliquis, aliqua, aliquid ; alter, altera, alterum ; quisquis, quidquid ; quisquam, quidquam ; quisque, quaeque, quodque ; quidam ; quo and qua ; Readings; title: 19. Education. Adjectives ; Adverbs ; Comparison ; Comparative adverbs ; The superlative ; Superlative adverbs ; Readings; title: 20. Life at work. Past participles ; The ablative absolute ; Present participles ; Participles with dependent nouns ; Future participles ; Summary: participles ; Translating participles ; Readings; title: 21. Life at leisure. Conditional clauses ; The partitive genitive ; Irregular verbs: volo, nolo, malo ; Irregular verb: fio ; Readings; title: 22. Fugit irreparabile tempus. Infinitives ; Reported speech, thoughts and feelings ; The accusative and infinitive ; Infinitives: present, past and future ; The 'other party' subjunctive ; More on the relexive pronoun and adjective: se and suus ; Readings; title: 23. On the edge of the world. Gerunds ; Gerundives ; Readings; title: 24. Gods and spirits. Impersonal verbs ; Transitive and intransitive verbs ; Revision of the uses of the subjunctive ; Readings; title: 25. Rough justice. Words working in pairs ; The nominative case reviewed ; The accusative case reviewed ; The genitive case reviewed ; Readings; title: 26. Christianity. The dative case reviewed ; The ablative case reviewed ; Readings; title: The pronunciation of classical Latin; title: Timeline of Latin writers; title: Grammar summary; title: Index of examples; title: Index of grammar; title: Abbreviations; title: Latin to English vocabulary; title: English to Latin vocabulary.