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Wheelock's Latin GrammarQuick! (Latin Edition)

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This is great review on the grammar concepts you learn from Wheelock-right at your fingertips! As a Latin teacher, I think all Latin students need this as a reference guide especially if those students are going to take the AP Vergil exam. Thanks for this handy guide that can be kept in a binder.
Caesar's Latin teacher

Wonderful concise condensation of Latin grammar protocol. Laminated, three hole punched for your notebook, built rugged for lasting value. With this and Traupman's* Latin English Dictionary, you will be set to face Cicero et al.
*The Bantam New College Latin & English Dictionary, Revised Edition

I have two of these , one for school and one for home study. I carry it to class all the time. Excellent review of verb forms with examples, as well as all noun declensions etc. It is way better to carry this than the heavy text. Fits well into any 8x11 binder pockets. Very good Buy

Don't buy this if you are a new student of Latin or if you are trying to relearn the language. While it is packed with information, the author appears to be trying to be clever, often too much so. Whether this is the result of trying to pack a lot into a small space, or an attempt at cleverness is unclear, but it comes off as the latter.

The primary fault is that the otherwise lucid explanations are constantly interrupted by extraneous translations of an English phrase into Latin: "...e.g., amabo: I will love: (1) root meaning (princeps significatio) here, "love"... The student does not need the translation of "root meaning," he or she needs to understand the structure of a Latin verb. Since most modern students are not taught the structure of English, anything that adds to the confusion is dead weight.

The advanced student may find it useful, as will those whose Latin is merely a bit rusty. The rest will find it anything from annoying to intimidating. I may go through my copy with a permanent marker and edit out the annoying distractions. I have a perfectly good Latin dictionary if I want to translate something into Latin.