John Taylor was for many years Head of Classics at Tonbridge School, UK, and is now Lecturer in Classics at Manchester University, UK. He is an experienced examiner of Ancient Greek and the author of many widely used Bloomsbury textbooks including Latin to GCSE (with Henry Cullen, 2016), Essential GCSE Latin (2nd edition, 2014), Greek Beyond GCSE (2nd edition, 2017) and Greek to GCSE (2nd edition, 2016).

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Preface
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Map of the Roman Empire

Chapter 1
Use of cases; Verb tenses; Adjectives, adverbs, comparatives and superlatives; Direct questions; Relative clauses; More complex relative clauses; Connecting relative; Prepositions, prefixes and compounds; Present subjunctive; Jussive subjunctive; Wishes for the future; Potential subjunctive; Deliberative questions; Purpose clauses; Sequence of tenses (1); Direct commands; Indirect commands; Verbs of fearing; Perfect subjunctive; Result clauses; Indirect questions; Sequence of tenses (2); Periphrastic future (and future-in-the-past) subjunctive

Chapter 2
Principal parts and the supine; Indirect statement; Future passive infinitive; Participles; Ablative absolute; Impersonal verbs and impersonal passive; Time clauses; Time clauses implying purpose or proviso; Cum clauses; Inverted cum clauses; Causal clauses; Concessive clauses; Paired and co-ordinated words; Conjunctions (1): connecting; Conjunctions (2): subordinating

Chapter 3
Predicative dative; Gerunds and gerundives; The gerund; The gerundive; Gerundive looking like a gerund ('impersonal neuter gerundive of obligation'); Gerund changed into gerundive ('gerundival attraction'); Conditional sentences; Conditionals (1): open or unknown; Conditionals (2): closed or remote; Wishes and fears for the present and past; Use of quin and quominus, and verbs of preventing; Conventions of extended narrative; Extended indirect speech ('oratio obliqua'); Subordinate clauses in indirect speech; Open or unknown conditionals in indirect statement; Closed or remote conditionals in indirect statement

Chapter 4: AS-level practice passages and sentences
Unseen translation passages
Comprehension passages
Translating from English to Latin
English to Latin sentences

Chapter 5: A-level practice passages
Unseen prose translation passages: Livy
Translating verse
Scansion
300 common words for verse unseens
Unseen verse translation passages: Ovid, elegiacs
Unseen verse translation passages: Ovid, hexameters
Comprehension passages
Translating into continuous Latin prose
Prose composition passages

Chapter 6: Readings
1: Nepos on Alcibiades and Athens
2: Curtius on Alexander and Porus
3: Livy on Horatius Cocles and on Mucius Scaevola
(i) Horatius Cocles
(ii) Mucius Scaevola
4: Cicero on how brave men despise death
5: Tacitus on the Great Fire of Rome

Summaries of syntax Reference Grammar
Nouns
Adjectives
Adverbs
Numerals
Pronouns
Prepositions
Verbs
Important irregular principal parts

Appendices
1: Words easily confused
2: Words with more than one meaning
3: Pronunciation
4: Roman names
5: Roman dates and times
6: Roman money, weights and measures
7: Roman rulers
8: Roman authors

Summaries of syntax
Reference grammar
Appendices
Glossary of grammar terms
English to Latin vocabulary
Latin to English vocabulary
Index