Latin Course for Schools Part 1 [Paperback]

L.A. Wilding'sLatin Course for Schoolsis well established as an excellent introduction to the
language, providing details of grammar and syntax in an ordered and easily assimilable sequence. Continuous translation from original sources is used throughout the course from the earliest stages, both in order to give pupils a sense of progress and achievement and to instill a genuine interest in Latin.

This guide to Latin presents grammar, and the rules of elementary syntax in an ordered sequence. Within this framework the books are laid out so that the pupil may feel from the beginning a sense of progress and an interest in the language.

Prefaces to the second and third editions
Preface
Introduction to the beginner
Note on the Latin alphabet
Every chapter contains exercises from Latin into English and from English into Latin. The following is a summary of the Grammar and Syntax covered by each chapter, with the titles of the pieces of continuous Latin Translation.
1. The Verb: 1st Conjugation, Present Indicative Active; Conjunctions; the Negative
2. The Noun (Introduction); Two Nouns as the Persons of the Verb; Note on Translating
3. Nominative and Accusative Cases; Word Order; Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Before the Romans came
4. Vocative Case; 1st Conjugation: Imperative Active
5. 1st Declension: Nominative, Vocative, and Accusative Cases, Singular and Plural First Roman expedition to Britain
Questions
6. Genitive Case
Roman occupation of Britain
7. Dative Case
Conquest of Anglesey
8. Ablative Case; its use with Prepositions
Detection of the robber Cacus
9. Prepositions with Accusative Case; Place: to,from,
at, with Proper Names; Verbs with two Accusatives
Themistoc/es, a great Greek statesman
10. Complete 1st Declension: Revision
Britain under Agricola
11. 1st Conjugation: Future and Imperfecló&