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What is a good grammar reference for beginners? - "New Latin Grammar" by Bennett, or "New Latin Grammar" by Alen and Greenbough; or are there are better recommendations?
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They're all equally good imo.
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as far as i know, kennedy's shorter latin primer is by far the best first grammer, it's barely 100 pages. out of print though. my copy was off ebay.
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I've always liked Bennett's New Latin Grammar for quick answers. I suggest it to my students as their first reference grammar. For more advanced work, check Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar.
Both have book previews at bolchazy.com, so you can at least know what you're getting.
Both have book previews at bolchazy.com, so you can at least know what you're getting.
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I suspect few of us know all the contenders well. Certainly I don't. So I can only say what I have found useful. One would be New Latin Grammar. The other, which takes quite a different approach, would be "Latin Grammar" by Dirk Panhuis.
"A New Latin Syntax" by Woodcock doesn't cover so much ground but I found a lot of intelligence in it.
"A New Latin Syntax" by Woodcock doesn't cover so much ground but I found a lot of intelligence in it.
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I thought the book by Woodcock was pretty in-depth.
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MatthaeusLatinus, I agree. Great book.
I'm not sure whether you were contradicting me, but if so, I meant that NLG doesn't, for example, document the paradigm declensions and conjugations.
I'm not sure whether you were contradicting me, but if so, I meant that NLG doesn't, for example, document the paradigm declensions and conjugations.
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In case anyone is interested, when I referred to "NLG" is my previous post, I was actually referring to Woodcock's New Latin Syntax. Sorry!