Contents

1. Introduction
   1. Latin and English
   2. Morphology and syntax
   3. Parts of speech
2. Nouns and their relatives
   1. Introduction
   2. The declensions
   3. Agreement
   4. Relative clauses
3. Verbs & syntax
   1. Introduction: the conjugations
   2. Elements of verb endings:
      • person, number, and tense
      • Voice: active and passive
        • Deponents and principal parts
      • Mood:
        • indicative and subjunctive
          • Subjunctive constructions
        • Infinitives
   3. Participles
      • Ablative Absolute

About these pages

• This is a companion to Royal Holloway's course in Beginners' Latin, based on Units 1-16 of Gavin Betts, Teach Yourself Latin. It's designed principally for revision by those who have already completed the course, but can be studied as an independent guide. It doesn't follow the order of material in the coursebook precisely; rather, it threads what I hope is a logical and progressive way through the grammatical topics covered. The material is based on the course video, available for loan from the Departmental office. (The video additionally includes a work-through of a piece of original Latin featured in a recent exam paper for the course.)

• Also available is an interactive vocabulary- and verb-testing program for Macintosh or Windows, based on the booklets accompanying the course, though perfectly usable without them. It's included on the disk, or you can download it from http://www.rhbnc.ac.uk/Classics/NJL/Latin/download.html.

• The diagram below shows how the main grammatical ideas covered here link together. The arrows show which concepts build on which - the basic ideas you need to understand as a prerequisite for the more complex ones. Click on a box in the diagram to go to that topic.