Elementary New Testament Greek, 2014a

Exercises
I. Short Answer
1) What time (past, present or future) does the Greek Aorist Tense signify in
the Indicative Mood?
2) What aspect (internal/continuous, external/undened, or perfect) do Aorist
Tenses (in every Mood) signify?
3) How would you express (in English) the notions of time and aspect (of the
Aorist Indicative) with the verb “run” in the rst person singular, active
voice?
4) From which Principal Part is the Greek Aorist Tense (active and middle
voices) built (in all Moods)?
5) From which Principal Part is the Greek Aorist Tense (passive voice) built?
6) With what set of personal endings is the Greek Aorist Tense built?
7) Does an augment appear with Greek verbs in the Aorist Indicative?
8) Does an augment appear with Greek verbs in non-Indicative Aorist
Tenses?
9) How many different strategies (Assembly Lines) might be used to create
the 3rd Principal Part from a verb Root?
10) What are the three uses of the Aorist Tense, broadly speaking? Explain
each.
11) An Innitive combines what two Parts of Speech?
12) A Participle combines what two Parts of Speech?
13) What ten (10) Parts of Speech are represented by each of the following
abbreviations from Mounce’s Interlinear?
v n d adj a cj r p j pl
12: Aorist Tense
14) What two (2) verb Modes are represented by the following abbreviations
from Mounce’s Interlinear?
f
pt
Solutions to Exercise I
1) past
2) external, viewed as a simple whole
3) I ran (notice: past time; external/simple aspect)
4) the 3rd Principal Part
5) the 6th Principal Part
6) secondary personal endings; [Aorist Active: secondary active; Aorist Middle: secondary middle;
Aorist Passive: secondary active]
7) yes [augments appear in the three past time tenses of the Indicative (Imperfect, Aorist, Pluperfect)]
8) no [augments signal past time, which occurs only in the Indicative Mood]
9) ve
10) Constative: [viewing an event as a simple whole]; Ingressive: [viewing the onset of an event];
Consummative: [viewing the completion of an event]
11) verb and noun
12) verb and adjective
13) Verb, Noun, Article, Adjective, Adverb, Conjunction, Pronoun, Preposition, Interjection, Particle
14) Innitive, Participle
II. Part 1 Drills with Present, Imperfect, Future and Aorist Verbs in
the Indicative
1) Working with the verb:
a)
b)
c)
d)
2) Working with the verb:
a)
b)
c)
d)
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