Elementary New Testament Greek, 2014a

7: Pronouns
Exercises
I. Short Answer
1) In general, what do pronouns do?
2) What do we call the noun that is replaced by a pronoun?
3) How must a pronoun agree with the noun it has replaced?
4) Why does a pronoun not need to agree with its antecedent in case?
5) What kind of pronoun opens up a new subordinate clause? (e.g. I know
the man whom you saw yesterday.)
6) What kind of pronoun allows us to ask a question? (e.g. Who has taken his
body from the tomb?)
7) What kind of pronoun allows us to refer to what is not yet known? (e.g.
Someone must have taken him away.)
8) What kind of pronoun refers back to the subject? (e.g. He loved himself
above all else.)
9) What kind of pronoun depicts complex interaction? (e.g. They were
praising one another on a job well done.)
10) In what position are demonstratives found then they modify nouns?
11) Why are personal pronouns emphatic when found in the nominative case?
12) 12. In what position are 3rd personal pronouns when they bear the
Identical sense? (i.e. “same”)
13) 13. In what position are 3rd personal pronouns when they bear the
Intensive sense? (i.e. “--self”)
Solutions to Exercise I
1) They replace nouns to ease and simplify the ow from one sentence (or clause) to the next.
2) Replaced nouns are called antecedents.
3) A pronoun must agree with the noun it replaces in gender and number (not necessarily in case).
4) The case of the pronoun must reect its own usage in its own clause, not the case (or usage) of its
antecedent.
5) A relative pronoun.
6) An interrogative pronoun.
7) An indenite pronoun.
8) A reexive pronoun.
9) A reciprocal pronoun.
10) Predicate position. E.g. (article—noun—pronoun)
11) They redundantly overlap the pronoun subject already expressed by the verb ending.
12) Attributive position. E.g. (the same children)
13) Predicate position. E.g. (the children themselves)
II. Exercises with Pronouns
Part 1: Near and Far Demonstratives:
1)
2)
3) μ
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5)
6)
7)
8)
9) μ
10)
11)
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12) μ