In the first half of your first year of Latin, you will learn the basics of Latin grammar: how simple sentences and phrases are formed, and how and why words change their endings.
In this part of the website, you can find:
- Syntax
- The syntax of a language consists of the rules that describe how words are arranged to form phrases and sentences. Here you will find the rules for forming simple sentences, noun phrases and preposition phrases.
- Morphology
- The morphology of a language consists of the rules that describe how words change their forms to express grammatical properties like tense, number or case. Here you will find rules and tables that describe how nouns, verbs and adjectives change their endings.
- Vocabulary
- Here you will find vocabulary lists for chapters 1-3 and for chapters 1-6.
- Exercises
- Here you will find exercises, which you can use for practice, and to test your knowledge of Latin syntax and morphology.
- Culture
- Here you will find questions you can use to structure your notes and to test your knowledge of life in first-century Italy, as described in the background essays to chapters 1-6.