Contents
Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Preface: For Teachers
Introduction: For Students
Part I. Getting Started
1. Learning a Foreign Language: The Bad News and the Good News
2. Studying a Dead Language: Why Bother?
3. The Building Blocks of Language
Part 2. Nouns and the Words That Go With Them
4. Expressing the Relations between Nouns
5. Adjectives, Articles, and Pronouns
Part 3. Verbs: The Heart of Communication
6. What Do Verbs Do?
7. Finite Verb Forms: A Closer Look at Tense and Mood
8. Special (Non-Finite) Verbal Forms: Infinitives and Participles
Part 4. Looking at Sentences as a Whole
9. Words, Phrases, Clauses: Putting Them Together
10. Reading a Greek or Latin Sentence: Some Suggestions
Index