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Tosavemehavingtohanditineachtimetogetmarked,doesanyonehaveacopyoftheanswerstoLatin,BeyondGCSEbyJohnTaylor? It would come better last, and after gerundival attraction, which itself seems to follow on naturally from an account of the uses of the gerund — it is used as an alternative to the gerund with transitive verbs and deponent verbs that take the ablative.Latin Beyond GCSE" covers all the linguistic requirements for the OCR AS-level in Latin, and the grammar for A2. Contributors explore digital comics and social media networks; comics as graffiti and stencil art in public spaces; comics as a tool for teaching architecture or processing social trauma; and the consumption and publishing of comics as forms of shaping national, social and political identities. Taylor seems to think that the primary function of the gerundive is to express obligation or necessity — its main, almost sole, function in Greek. But the goal must be for students to start at the beginning of the line and do the scansion (in their heads, eventually) as they proceed, which is entirely possible if they (i) know the scheme of the meter, (ii) are able to distinguish open and closed syllables and are aware that the latter are long, and (iii) can trust their pronunciation (most of the time) to identify vowels in open syllables as long or short.

Excellently presented, good explanations of principles of grammar, followed by well set-out exercises and passages of Latin prose for translation. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The only one that came anywhere near this was Latin As Literature by Anthony Verity, long out of print and too advanced in any case for present-day Advanced students. Big minus is the layout of the grammar sections: in both Chapters 1 and 2, and in the reference grammar section, it is difficult to find what one wants, or more generally to find one's way around. It offers a comprehensive survey of Latin grammar in a more engaging way than the traditional grammar book, and it provides plenty of exercises to reinforce the grammar that has been learned and give practice in applying it.I started a Classics degree from scratch at 18 after having never studied it in my life and this made it so simple. is a series of five longer Readings, the longest amounting to 81 lines: Nepos on Alcibiades, Curtius on Alexander and Porus, Livy on Horatius and Scaevola (two separate shorter passages), Cicero”s Tusculans on the fear of death, and Tacitus on the fire of Rome.

The next sections provide translation and comprehension passages at AS and A-level, including verse unseens, scansion, and a list of 300 common poetic words.

John Taylor was for many years Head of Classics at Tonbridge School, UK, and is now Lecturer in Greek and Latin Language at Manchester University, UK. It introduces the translation and scansion of verse, and includes passages for unseen translation and comprehension at A2 standard in both prose and verse. In fact the tenses used are exactly the same as those for subordinate clauses in indirect speech, which such a table (see point 9) would show at a glance. In some of the detail the book must go well beyond the immediate needs of students at this level, but this is hardly a fault.

The book provides a significant number of equally significant improvements, and the new edition is about 100 pages longer than the original. It indicates purpose or fitness (the latter was perhaps its original meaning) in certain uses of gerundival attraction, e. The manuscript tradition shows that Cicero used both the subjunctive and indicative, seemingly indiscriminately, in indirect questions; but the grammarians — or some of them: they often could not agree, sometimes with themselves even — knew better than Cicero (how ironic is that?e. not (directly) to the literature requirements as well, therefore to half of the examinations only. Description Latin Beyond GCSE covers all the linguistic requirements for the OCR AS and A Level in Latin.