Introduction The Latin alphabet 1. Myth, legend and history Nouns and verbs; Nouns: subjects and objects; Negative; Articles the and a; Word order; 'Object' of est; Verbs; and; Cases; Nominative case; Accusative case; English pronouns to add in translation; his, her or their in place of the/a. 2. The Republic Genitive case; Dative case; Ablative case; Prepositions; Vocative case; est and sunt. 3. Carthage Singular and plural: Nominative and Accusative plural; Genitive, dative and ablative plural; Gender; Neuter nouns; puella, servus, vinum. 4. Greece Questions; Adjectives; bonus,-a,-um; Nouns: puer, magister, vir; Adjectives: miser,-era,-erum; noster,-tra,-trum; Adjectives as nouns. 5. New factions and old families Genitive and dative expressing ownership; Past participles; Past participles with est or sunt; Translating past participles; sum, esse. 6. The Republic under strain Verbs; 1st conjugation: present tense; Separate pronouns as subjects; The infinitive; The perfect tense; Principal parts; Missing words or words 'understood'; More adjectives acting as nouns. 7. Friends and enemies 2nd conjugation verbs: present and perfect tenses; 3rd declension nouns; Him, her and them; His and her. 8 Civil War 3rd declension nouns (neuter); 3rd declension adjectives; Possessive adjectives. 9. The Ides of March 3rd, 4th and Mixed conjugation verbs: present and perfect tenses; All present and perfect tenses. 10. A woman in politics 4th declension nouns; -us endings; domus; Irregular verbs: sum, possum, volo, eo, fero; Verbs followed by an infinitive. 11. Politics and marriage Imperfect tense; Imperfect tense of irregular verbs; Pluperfect tense; Numbers. 12. The sweetness of peace 5th declension nouns; Future tense; Future tense of irregular verbs; Imperatives; Uses of the accusative; Uses of the ablative.13, Dissenting voices Future perfect tense; Tenses review; Principal parts review; Compound verbs. 14. Songs and suppers Passive voice; Present, future and imperfect passive; Perfect and pluperfect passive; 1st and 2nd person pronouns. 3rd person pronouns: hic, ille, is, se, ipse. 15. Tales of love Introducing the subjunctive; Present subjunctive; Deponent verbs; 16. Women: warriors, drunks and literary critics Imperfect subjunctive; ut and ne; Purpose clauses; Sequence of tenses; Indirect commands; Result clauses; ut with the indicative; Perfect subjunctive; Pluperfect subjunctive; cum; Verbs of fearing; Indirect questions; Summary: ut and ne. 17. Family ties Interrogative pronoun and adjective; Relative pronoun and adjective; Correlative pronouns; Indefinite pronoun and adjective; Summary: quis/ qui; More adjectives: alius, totus, nullus, ullus and solus. 18. Slavery quod; quam; aliquis; alter; quisquis; quisquam; quisque; quidam; quo and qua. 19. Education Adjectives; Adverbs; Comparison; Comparative adverbs; The superlative; Superlative adverbs. 20. Negotium: Life at work Past participles; Ablative absolute; Present participles; Future participles; Translating participles. 21. Otium: Life at leisure Conditional clauses; Translating conditionals; Partitive genitive; Irregular verbs: volo, nolo, malo; Irregular verb: fio. 22 Fugit irreparabile tempus Infinitives; Reported speech; Accusative & Infinitive; Infinitives: present, past and future; Translating the Accusative & Infinitive; 'Third party' subjunctive; More on se and suus. 23. On the edge of the world English gerunds; Latin gerunds; Gerundives. 24. Gods and spirits Impersonal verbs; Transitive and intransitive verbs; Revision of the uses of the subjunctive 25. Rough justice Words working in pairs; Cases review: nominative, accusative, genitive 26. Christianity Cases review: dative, ablative. Pronunciation of classical Latin Timeline of Latin writers Grammar summary Index of examples Grammar index Abbreviations Latin > English vocabulary English > Latin vocabulary