For those sick with the traditional textbooks of Latin.

William Harris' Latin Grammar
The intelligent person's guide to the Latin Language

(published on Orbis Latinus with the author's permission)

Note: This version is not final and may contain some typos and minor errors. Since writing this first edition in l997, Professor Harris has done a new "Intelligent Person's Guide" which is over twice as long, has hundreds of interesting examples of use, with an explanatory, non-traditional study of Latin Syntax. It is now available in a printed book form as a much more readable medium. See for more information... 

1. Preface
2. Background
3. The Idea of Latin Grammar
4. The Noun System
   The First Declension.  The Second Declension.  The Third Declension.  The Fourth Declension.  The Fifth Declension.  An Excursus on "Vowel Length".
5. The Adjective and Adverb
   The Adjectives.  Class I: Adjectives based on Declensions I and II.  Class II: Adjectives based on Declensions III.  General Notions on the Adjectives.  The "Grades" of Adjectives.  The Adverbs.
6. The Pronouns
7. Brief Review of the Noun, Adjective and Pronouns
8. The Forms of the Latin Verb
   Conjugations. The Present Tense.  The Imperfect Tense.  The Future Tense.  The Perfect Tense.  The Pluperfect Tense.  The Future Perfect Tense.
9. The Infinitives
10. The Participles
    The Present Active Participle.  The Perfect Passive Participle.  The Future Active Participle.  
    The Gerundive.  The Gerund.  The Supines. 
11. The Imperative
12. The Passive of the Verb
    Present Stem Passives in the Indicative.  The Present Passive Indicative.  The Imperfect Passive Indicative.  The Future Passive Indicative.  Perfect Stem Passives in the Indicative.  The Perfect Passive Indicative.  The Pluperfect Passive Indicative.  The Future Perfect Passive Indicative.
13. The Active Subjunctive
    The Present Subjunctive.  The Imperfect Subjunctive.  The Perfect Subjunctive.  The Pluperfect Subjunctive.
14. The Passive Subjunctive
    The Present Passive Subjunctive.  The Imperfect Passive Subjunctive.  The Perfect Passive Subjunctive.  The Pluperfect Passive Subjunctive.
15. Conditions with the Subjunctive
16. The Organization of Words
17. The Ablative Absolute
18. Indirect Discourse
19. Subordination as Style
20. Some Thoughts on Syntax

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