Writing Latin

A completely new guide to writing Latin from scratch, this user-friendly book includes key features such as: broad coverage. - all the major grammatical constructions of the Latin language are covered, reinforcing what students have learnt from reading Latin; thorough accessible explanations. - no previous experience of writing in Latin assumed; hundreds of examples. - clear accurate illustrations of the constructions described, all with full translations; over six hundred practice sentences. - graduated exercises leading students through three levels of difficulty from elementary to advanced level; introduction to Latin word order. - a brief guide to some of the most important principles; and, longer passages for practising continuous prose composition. - more challenging passages to stretch the most able students. It also includes features such as: commentaries on examples of Latin prose style. - passages from great Latin prose writers focus attention on imitating real Latin usage; and, complete list of vocabulary. - all the words needed for the exercises and a valuable reference for English-Latin work in general.