Understanding language a guide for beginning students of Greek and Latin / Donald Fairbairn.

Author/creator Fairbairn, Donald
Format Electronic
Publication InfoWashington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press,
Descriptionxxiv, 190 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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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.
General noteIncludes index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010050051
ISBN9780813218663 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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