Two Hundred and One Latin Verbs

by Joseph Wohlberg

Book Overview

211 pages This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812002113
• ISBN13: 9780812002119
• Release Date: January 1964
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

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This is the most basic of basic books, and is exactly what its title promises - it is a listing of the 201 most common verbs in Latin. Each of the numbered pages 1-201 has one verb laid out in all its tenses, voices, moods, persons and numbers. The pages are laid out with Active Voice on the left (the most common voice found in Latin writing), and Passive Voice on the right. The page is broken into Mood - these include Indicative (the most direct form of address), Subjunctive, Imperative, and Infinitive. The bottom of each page lists the participle forms, forms of verbs used as modifiers. The verb tenses in each of these subsections is laid out in first, second and third person, singular and plural, in a chart. Each page has one verb dedicated to it.Some verbs are not fully developed - the author Joseph Wohlberg of the City University of New York explains that while there are theoretical constructs of verbs, sometimes we have no evidence that such tenses or constructions were ever used, and so these are omitted. Also, there are lots of verbs whose construction parallels each other precisely (many verbs are formed from prefixes being attached, much as languages like German also do); these verbs are parenthetically linked to other, similar verbs. There is an English-Latin index, and a Latin-English index at the end of the book. These indexes are only five pages long apiece; this is a short book, with only the most essential of verbs listed. The word selection comes from frequency counts of verbs on Latin exams of the New York State Regents and other College Board entrance and/or placement examinations. There are no additions here - no grammar, no pronunciation, no history. This is simply what it purports to be - a book of verbs. In that, it is very useful, and as I studied Latin, and invaluable aid.