Help with Constructions, Tenses and Cases
In addition to help on the passages, Latin without Tears offers extensive general help on Latin syntax. This help can be viewed at any time from the Help Menu and selected pages can be printed directly for use by classes. Teachers may also find these Help pages useful as a basis for their own notes. Teachers can select a given page and copy it to a word-processor by the usual technique of copy [CTRL + C] and paste [CTRL + V], where the notes can be adapted to suit the needs of their own students. This General Help is of three kinds: Help on Understanding Constructions, Help on Understanding Tenses and Help on Cases.
Help on Latin Constructions
All of the common Latin Constructions are covered in considerable detail accompanied by plenty of practical advice about achieving an acceptable English rendering. Here is a (short) excerpt from the notes about Cum Clauses:
The Latin Constructions treated are these:
| Main and Subordinate Clauses Sequence of Tenses The Ablative Absolute Cum Clauses Purpose Clauses (= Final Clauses) Result Clauses (= Consecutive Clauses) Indirect Commands Indirect Questions |
Verbs of Fearing Indirect Statements Subjunctives of Subordinate Clauses within Indirect Statements Conditional Sentences Gerunds & Gerundives Gerundive of Obligation Independent uses of the Subjunctive |
Help on Understanding Tenses
This is a summary of the main uses of the various Latin tenses, with links to pages of detailed practical advice about translating each tense, together with a wealth of examples. Here, for example, is an excerpt from notes on the Pluperfect Tense:
Help on Understanding Cases
This is a summary of the main uses of the various Latin case endings, again with links to pages of detailed advice about translating a Latin word found in that case, illustrated with a host of examples. Here, for example, are some of the notes on the Genitive Case:
