The Greek & Latin Roots of English
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (607 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0742514668 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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The author has a way of communicating well with the students. If you want to teach this class, use another book at your own peril. I looked at (and continue to look at) every major etymology textbook on the market, but I always come back to Professor Green's book. Sechrist)Concise and authoritative, this book packs an extraordinary amount of information into a useful format. (Daniel Levine)An excellent book--The Greek & Latin Roots of English has proven to be an excellent resource. They will also lend themselves to some good discussions, as students may have a variety of answers with rationales. I have been teaching the class now for eight years,
Tamara M. Green is professor and chair of the Classics Department at CUNY-Hunter College. She is also author of The City of the Moon God: Religious Traditions of Harran (1992).
Four Stars none 13 You will need a teacher to help you with this book. The book is very good. "Tamara Green is an amazing professor and writer" according to Mary O. I majored in Latin and Greek at Hunter (though I didn't finish my degree there), and I treasure every moment in and out of class in the Classics department. Parents, if you want your children to totally master vocabulary, get them this book and encourage them to work through it. Even if they don't have the benefit of AP classes in their school, this will do wonders for their SAT verbals.. Language lovers will like this. I lost this book in my most recent move, and may have to re-buy it. It is really good and enjoyable for those of us who like to know where words came from.
This unique, focused approach makes The Greek & Latin Roots of English as valuable to a medical student studying terminology as it is to a student of language and the classics.. Green opens with an introduction to basic principles of Latin and Greek. Over 60 percent of all English words have Greek or Latin roots; in the vocabulary of the sciences and technology, it's over 90 percent. Thus, studying the Greek and Latin roots of English is essential to understanding English vocabulary and how the history of the English language has shaped our perceptions of the world around us. Now in its third edition, The Greek & Latin Roots of English is one of the foremost resources for students of etymology across many acad