Contents
A systematic guide to grammar in English, Spanish, French, Latin, German, and Ancient Greek.
Main Chapters
| Chapter | Content |
|---|---|
| Introduction | Core principles, grammatical categories, parsing process |
| Punctuation | Sentence boundaries and punctuation marks |
| 1. Nouns | Case, number, gender, declension |
| 2. Pronouns | Personal, demonstrative, relative, interrogative, reflexive, indefinite, clitics |
| 3. Verbs | Person, number, tense, aspect, mood, voice, conjugation |
| 3A. Conjugation Tables | Complete verb paradigms |
| 3B. Auxiliary Verbs | To be, to have, and essential irregulars |
| 4. Adjectives | Agreement, comparison, position |
| 5. Function Words | Adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, articles, particles |
| 6. Phrases | NP, VP, PP structure |
| 7. Clauses | Subordinate clause types, complementation patterns |
| 7A. Conditional Sentences | If-then constructions across all six languages |
| 8. Negation | How languages express “not” |
| 9. Questions | Question formation across languages |
| 10. Parsing Sentences | Worked examples (70%+ English) |
Appendices
| Appendix | Content |
|---|---|
| A. Glossary | Glossary of grammatical terms |
| B. Language Summaries | Quick reference for each language |
| C. Language Families | Indo-European relationships and borrowing |
| D. Scansion and Metre | Poetic metre across languages |
| E. Unusual Features | Unique grammatical features by language |
| F. Common Errors | Common grammatical errors by native speakers |
| G. Word Order Typology | SVO, SOV, V2, and word order flexibility |
| H. Worked Parsing Examples | Parsed sentences with translations in all six languages |
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