: James Morwood, Richard Ashdowne
: Writing Latin
: Bloomsbury Publishing
: 9781472502780
: 1
: CHF 27.70
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: Sonstiges
: English
A completely new guide to writing Latin from scratch, this user-friendly book includes key features such as: broad coverage - all the major grammatical constructions of the Latin language are covered, reinforcing what students have learnt from reading Latin, thorough accessible explanations - no previous experience of writing in Latin assumed, hundreds of examples - clear accurate illustrations of the constructions described, all with full translations, over six hundred practice sentences - graduated exercises leading students through three levels of difficulty from elementary to advanced level,introduction to Latin word order - a brief guide to some of the most important principles, and, longer passages for practising continuous prose composition - more challenging passages to stretch the most able students.It also includes features such as: commentaries on examples of Latin prose style - passages from great Latin prose writers focus attention on imitating real Latin usage, and, complete list of vocabulary - all the words needed for the exercises and a valuable reference for English-Latin work in general.