Latin Prose Composition

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. 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.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.

PrefacePart 1: GCSECh 1 Writing Latin at GCSE (Eduqas)Ch 2 Writing Latin at GCSE (OCR)Part 2: AS LevelCh 3 First Steps Beyond GCSECh 4 More on VerbsCh 5 Pronouns ICh 6 Comparative and Superlative Adjectives and AdverbsCh 7 ParticiplesCh 8 Temporal Clauses ICh 9 Pronouns IICh 10 Commands, Exhortations, WishesCh 11 Direct QuestionsCh 12 Time and PlaceCh 13 Indirect StatementsCh 14 Purpose ClausesCh 15 Result ClausesCh 16 Indirect CommandsCh 17 Indirect QuestionsCh 18 Impersonal VerbsCh 19 Verbal Nouns and GerundsCh 20 GerundivesCh 21 Gerundives of ObligationCh 22 Clauses of Fearing Ch 23 ConditionsCh 24 Temporal Clauses IICh 25 Causal and Concessive ClausesPart 3: A Level and BeyondCh 26 Correlative and Comparative ClausesCh 27 Wishes II and Precaution Further Case UsagesCh 28 Further Case UsagesCh 29 Verbs of Preventing, quominus and quinCh 30 Some uses of PronounsCh 31 Oratio ObliquaCh 32 A-Level-style Prose CompositionCh 33 Beyond A LevelCh 34 Extended PassagesReference GrammarVocabulary