Getting started. Learning a foreign language : the bad news and the good news -- Studying a dead language: why bother? -- Building blocks of language -- Nouns and the words that go with them. Expressing the relations between nouns -- Adjectives, articles, and pronouns -- Verbs : the heart of communication. What do verbs do? -- Finite verb forms : a closer look at tense and mood -- Special (non-finite) verbal forms : infinitives and participles -- Looking at sentences as a whole -- Words, phrases, clauses : putting them together -- Reading a Greek or Latin sentence : some suggestions
