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Understanding Language : : a Guide for Beginning Students of Greek and Latin

Fairbairn, Donald. Book - 2011 Lang-Learn-GRE 485-Fa 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 3 out of 5

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Includes index.
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.

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PUBLISHED
Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: xxiv, 190 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780813218663 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813218667 (pbk. : alk. paper)

SUBJECTS
Greek language -- Latin.
Latin language -- Greek.
Greek language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- English.
Latin language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- English.
Greek language materials.
Latin language materials.