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Colebourn's "Latin Sentence and Idiom"

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I just bought this book after hearing that it was good for taking the step from learning beginners' Latin to polishing up in preparation for the full-on classical texts, but have a small problem. The exercises have no answers, and I can't find an answer key on the internet!

Am I just being spoilt in expecting, as with most of the other modern introductory courses to Latin, that there is available either in the book itself or separately suggested answers? Clearly this was a book once used widely in classrooms and as such the teacher would be expected to provide answers, but is there no hope for an autodidact such as myself?

Does anyone know where I can get some answers to the exercises in the bloody thing? Or am I condemned to writing out my answers and hoping I'm not making howling errors along the road?

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Salve Thersites!

If you mean the book "Latin Sentence and Idiom: A Composition Course" by R. Colebourn you're probably out of luck. An answer key has been published by the author (as "A key to Latin sentence and idiom" in 1956 and 1963 and as "Key to the continuous prose passages in 'Latin sentence and idiom'" in 1952). Unfortunately, these do not seem to be readily available as far as I can tell from search results from Google Books and various online "Used books" web-sites.

So, you either work through it without key (and ask for help on this forum if you have serious doubts in some cases) or you switch to a different text book for which an answer key is available.

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Carolus Raeticus wrote:So, you either work through it without key (and ask for help on this forum if you have serious doubts in some cases)
I strongly recommend against this. It's easy to make a lot of mistakes without ever realizing it. Even Benissimus's old answer key for Wheelock had what seemed to be a few clear mistakes in it as a result of attempting this.

Have you tried contacting the publisher? Or is the publisher not around anymore?
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Don't despair!

Good old Patruus has included it in his collection of fantastic Latin answer keys:

http://cid-7c51d883593d5954.office.live ... 3D5954!142

I can't understand why Textkit hasn't yet set up a link to such keys somewhere on the site. How difficult would that be?

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Salve Interaxe!

I did not know about that resource! Cool.
Interaxus wrote: I can't understand why Textkit hasn't yet set up a link to such keys somewhere on the site. How difficult would that be?
I heartily agree with you. I believe that a small but good link list would be very useful for the users. Right now, such links are spread through various postings. In my opinion putting them in one - prominent - place (NOT a posting) would be better. One of the links should refer to Ed Donnelly's wonderful list of downloadable Latin (and Greek) text books in the public domain.

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Thank you all very much indeed for your replies. They were all extremely helpful - particularly Interaxus who, beyond all expectations, actually came up with the answer key! I'd long since begun to doubt it was any longer available. But thank you to all of you who replied, it was greatly appreciated.

I've read a fair bit of the book so far without attempting the exercises, and found it to be an excellent follow-on from the introductory course I did (So You Really Want to Learn Latin). So I'm very pleased I can now get stuck into the exercises.

Oncer again, thank you very much.

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Hi, I have tried the link provided by Interaxus, but it doesn't seem to be working for me :( Can anyone help, please? I get terribly stuck at some points with the exercises and I'm probably making many more mistakes than I realize...Thank you!

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Thank you very much! This is so helpful!!

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Wow. That is a brilliant resource. Thank you so much for sharing this! I'm looking to fine-tune my Latin (it's really bad even after two text modules at uni) so this is going to be really, really helpful.

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Hi, a key to the Colebourn prose comp book would be very useful, but both of the links in this chain don't seem to be working for me. can anyone suggest a current way of getting hold of it?
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Cicero wannabe:

Send me your email address in a Textkit PM and I'll send you the pdf.

Bene vale!
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I would really like a copy too. I'm teaching myself Latin and am about to finish Hilllard & Botting's Elementary Latin Exercises. I own Colebourn, but don't have the key.

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Hi, Could I possibly have the key as well? I can't use private messages yet though as I've just joined the site - is there another way to send the PDF?

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I'm also trying to find an answer key for Colebourn - but, oddly enough, the links here take me to a key for Bennett instead! Am I missing something?? I would be very grateful indeed for a Colebourn key. Thanks, all, for your help.

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Salve
I can't use either of these links, does anyone have another live one for the key to Colebourn Latin Sentence and Idiom?
Many thanks

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Salvete omnes,
Try this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ryap4ieiucer2 ... y.pdf?dl=0
Best of luck with this. Colebourn's is an excellent book; sums up all the important points of syntax in a concise and memorable form.
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doniol wrote:Salvete omnes,
Try this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ryap4ieiucer2 ... y.pdf?dl=0
Best of luck with this. Colebourn's is an excellent book; sums up all the important points of syntax in a concise and memorable form.
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Thanks for posting this, doniol. I have the books but never entertained any hope of finding a key.
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Thank you very much! The Dropbox link worked for me. Right now I'm following Moreland & Fleischer's 'LATIN An Intensive Course' by myself. I'm able to do so only because I could get the key to the answers. Now I will be able to do the same later with Colebourn's book. So thank you!

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Jaume, where did you get the key to M&F? How complete was it? There was a good key online a few years back but it disappeared without a trace!

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Hi, ÓBuadhaigh. Follow this link:

http://individual.utoronto.ca/ajhicks/m ... scher.html

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Thanks for this, Jaume. It's not a full key, but something is better than nothing. :D
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Here's a DropBox link to an M&F Key that seems pretty complete. Hope it fills in the gaps.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/etib9lmbxnwc ... 6mJCa?dl=0

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Interaxus, I have no idea how you found this - for I certainly looked - but it looks to me like a copy of the one which disappeared from Oxford University's website when they did their reorganisation a few years ago. Many, many thanks for this.

May I request any moderator passing through to put a copy of Interaxus' post on this thread? http://www.textkit.com/greek-latin-foru ... 20&t=10568
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Thank you, Interaxus!

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Thank you so much to Doniol for Colebourn's key:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ryap4ieiucer2 ... urnKey.pdf

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The key can be now found also following the link in The Textkit Book Collection.
I used mutool to split the original two-page pdf scan into a single- page pdf, as described here.

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Here's the COLEBOURN KEY in PDF format:

https://usuaris.tinet.cat/jfuste/01/ColebournKey.pdf

Enjoy!

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