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Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar (Dover Language Guides)

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This perhaps the best latin grammar out there today. Everything you ever wanted to know about this complex language is here. The grammatical points are clearly explained and numerous examples help clarify these points. The book also contains several sections on syntax as well. In fact the book is half grammar and the other half is syntax. Every serious student should own a copy, it is that good !

My 5-star review is for content only. The paperback copy I have gets a 1-star, because it is in pieces. I am tired of these expensive paperbacks falling apart. This book should come in a clothbound edition. Reference works should ALWAYS be available in a hardcover or clothbound edition - because they get such heavy use ! Publishers wakeup !

Contains all forms, usages, and syntax. Every archaic form and all odd uses for all tenses, declensions, and conjugations. A great resource for any Latin student, including the most advanced of Latin scholars.

Dear latin students in the U.S., this may be one of the best latin grammars ever written and now put into the Internet.During last decades, latin teaching has become more difficult, even in a french-speaking culture, as the quality of grammars has decreased. What's more, is that the prices of these bad grammars have climbed and have to be paid by students without a proper income. It is only by Internet that one can prevent such inadequacy. For those who have therefore given up studying one of the most amazing languages ever spoken, I only recommand to visit the Allen & Greenough Latin Grammar Site.

Marc WILMES Luxembourg

This is definitely among my favorite Latin grammar references (along with Gildersleeve's and Bennett's. As other reviewers mentioned, this is a grammar reference. Do not expect to learn Latin from this book. If you already have an understanding of Latin grammar or are merely wondering how the Latin language works, this book is an excellent choice. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar will be useful to teachers, students, and former students of Latin interested in maintaining/increasing their capabilities.

This book is a valuable reference for Latin grammar. If you have a first-year text such as Wheelock, you will still need this book or one like it to explain the many Latin constructions you will encounter which are not explained in an introductory textbook. I used this book to help write a grammatical commentary on a letter written by Cicero, as part of a school assignment. It was easy to find the information I needed.

For over a century, the peerless and indispensable companion for for anyone involved with Classical Latin. It passes on a tradition of profound scholarship with clarity and exactitude. A great bargain in the paperback edition.

Despite having this as a pdf, I decided quickly to buy a copy. This is the best, most comprehensive and user-friendly Latin grammar available. Though primarily a guide to grammar best used when translating out of Latin, the Syntax guide towards the back is immeasurably helpful for those translating into Latin.

While I would recommend this for beginning students, it is most helpful for those who already have a solid grasp on the language. (Sometimes you just need to know exactly how and when the partative genitive works, rather than simply how to translate it, you know?)
I believe it to be a guide that Latinists find increasingly helpful the deeper they delve into the field.

I agree though that it's a shame it's not available in hardcover. I would pay twice over for a well-bound copy, because this is a grammar I plan on using for decades.

A copy of Allen and Greenough belongs on every Latin student and every Latin scholar's bookshelf, and in fact is probably already there. After more than a hundred years in print, A&G is still a reliable reference for all aspects of traditional Latin grammar, and is a more than adequate reference for everyone short of graduate-level philologists. The final sections, on prosody and metre, are somewhat dated but still provide a good foundation in the similarly dated terminology one inevitably comes across in contemporary works on poetry. This edition with the gold-coloured cover is indeed flimsy, however.

Since no Latin grammar is truly complete, you need a whole family of grammars, and this might as well be one. The content of A&G is deservedly praised. This edition is very inexpensive. The publisher did a adequate, functional job.

I ordered the book (Latin Grammar) and received it (in Holland) a few weeks
later in very good shape. I like the service.