Latin Prose Composition

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Latin Prose Composition

A Guide from GCSE to A Level and Beyond

Educational: Modern (non-native or second) languages

Author: Andrew Leigh

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Language: English

Published by: Bloomsbury Academic

Published on: 5th September 2019

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 248 pages

ISBN: 9781350048041


Overview

This book helps students to write Latin using increasingly complex forms of expression. Part 1 gives guidance and practice exercises for the new sentences required at GCSE, while Parts 2 and 3 contain a series of chapters of grammatical introduction and exercises for translation into Latin leading up to A Level and Pre-U. Part 4 takes students into more advanced areas of composition.

Content and Approach

Continuous passages are included from an early stage alongside stand-alone sentences. Leigh gives clear guidance on the characteristic features of Latin prose, such as word order and subordination, as well as more advanced grammatical complexities. At the back of the book, lists of vocabulary and accidence provide reference and revision tools for students at all levels.

Benefits

Working through the book the rewards of learning to write Latin are clear: not merely a challenge to be overcome, prose composition gives a heightened appreciation of how Latin authors used the language to express themselves in their own particular styles.

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