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Fairbairn, Donald. (2011) Understanding language :a guide for beginning students of Greek and Latin Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press,
MLA CitationFairbairn, Donald. Understanding Language: A Guide For Beginning Students Of Greek And Latin. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University Of America Press, 2011. Print.
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Understanding language : a guide for beginning students of Greek and Latin /
Donald Fairbairn.
| Main Author: | Fairbairn, Donald. |
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| Published: | Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2011. |
| Topics: | Greek language - Grammar, Comparative - Latin. | Latin language - Grammar, Comparative - Greek. | Greek language - Textbooks for foreign speakers - English. | Latin language - Textbooks for foreign speakers - English. |
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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.