Latin Beyond GCSE (Paperback, 2 ed)

Preface List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Map of the Roman Empire Chapter 1 Use of cases; Verb tenses; Adjectives, adverbs, comparatives and superlatives; Direct questions; Relative clauses; More complex relative clauses; Connecting relative; Prepositions, prefixes and compounds; Present subjunctive; Jussive subjunctive; Wishes for the future; Potential subjunctive; Deliberative questions; Purpose clauses; Sequence of tenses (1); Direct commands; Indirect commands; Verbs of fearing; Perfect subjunctive; Result clauses; Indirect questions; Sequence of tenses (2); Periphrastic future (and future-in-the-past) subjunctive Chapter 2 Principal parts and the supine; Indirect statement; Future passive infinitive; Participles; Ablative absolute; Impersonal verbs and impersonal passive; Time clauses; Time clauses implying purpose or proviso; Cum clauses; Inverted cum clauses; Causal clauses; Concessive clauses; Paired and co-ordinated words; Conjunctions (1): connecting; Conjunctions (2): subordinating Chapter 3 Predicative dative; Gerunds and gerundives; The gerund; The gerundive; Gerundive looking like a gerund ('impersonal neuter gerundive of obligation'); Gerund changed into gerundive ('gerundival attraction'); Conditional sentences; Conditionals (1): open or unknown; Conditionals (2): closed or remote; Wishes and fears for the present and past; Use of quin and quominus, and verbs of preventing; Conventions of extended narrative; Extended indirect speech ('oratio obliqua'); Subordinate clauses in indirect speech; Open or unknown conditionals in indirect statement; Closed or remote conditionals in indirect statement Chapter 4: AS-level practice passages and sentences Unseen translation passages Comprehension passages Translating from English to Latin English to Latin sentences Chapter 5: A-level practice passages Unseen prose translation passages: Livy Translating verse Scansion 300 common words for verse unseens Unseen verse translation passages: Ovid, elegiacs Unseen verse translation passages: Ovid, hexameters Comprehension passages Translating into continuous Latin prose Prose composition passages Chapter 6: Readings 1: Nepos on Alcibiades and Athens 2: Curtius on Alexander and Porus 3: Livy on Horatius Cocles and on Mucius Scaevola (i) Horatius Cocles (ii) Mucius Scaevola 4: Cicero on how brave men despise death 5: Tacitus on the Great Fire of Rome Summaries of syntax Reference Grammar Nouns Adjectives Adverbs Numerals Pronouns Prepositions Verbs Important irregular principal parts Appendices 1: Words easily confused 2: Words with more than one meaning 3: Pronunciation 4: Roman names 5: Roman dates and times 6: Roman money, weights and measures 7: Roman rulers 8: Roman authors Summaries of syntax Reference grammar Appendices Glossary of grammar terms English to Latin vocabulary Latin to English vocabulary Index