(Ebook) An Answer Key to A Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin by John R. Dunlap ISBN 9780813214696, 0813214696

(Ebook) An Answer Key to A Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin by John R. Dunlap ISBN 9780813214696, 0813214696

This answer key comes in response to numerous requests over the years since the publication of John R Collins’s Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin in 1985. Collins himself—who died in 2002 before the issue of an answer key to his text had been resolved—envisioned his text for self-teaching as well as conventional classroom use. In addition to greater flexibility for teachers, then, the key is intended also to make the popular text more accessible to autodidacts, homeschooling families, parish seminars, and the like.The answer key covers the regular drills, exercises, and, eventually, short readings that occur in each of the 35 units of the text. The translations of exercise sentences, especially as they become more complex, are intended to be serviceable rather than exhaustive. Intermittently, however, alternative translations are provided, in most cases for obvious reasons. The most common reason is to give a more idiomatic English rendering of a Latin expression the sense of which may not be clear with a literal translation. Such alternatives are indicated with a slash mark (/) followed by the more idiomatic English expression.