Understanding Language : A Guide for Beginning Students of Greek and Latin /
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, District of Columbia :
Catholic University of America Press,
2011.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.