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Elementary New Testament Greek, 2014a

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2) CRUCIAL CONCEPT: <strong>Greek</strong> nouns are (almost always) xed in<br />

gender. E.g., a masculine noun will always be masculine. But because an<br />

article ought to be able to be linked with any noun at any time, the article<br />

must be completely exible, able to express itself in any case, number or<br />

gender in which the controlling noun happens to stand.<br />

3) CRUCIAL CONCEPT: The <strong>Greek</strong> article must agree with its partner<br />

noun in information, not necessarily in spelling. Note the genitive<br />

singular feminine example above: . The article and its<br />

partner noun are not spelled similarly, but they perfectly agree with each<br />

other in information: They both are genitive, singular, and feminine.<br />

While several pairings above do agree in spelling, this should be seen as<br />

a lucky circumstance, and not as a necessary feature of how agreement<br />

works.<br />

An Overview of the Ten Parts of Speech<br />

To this point we have studied four (4) different kinds of words: verbs, nouns,<br />

conjunctions, and the article. <strong>Greek</strong> may be analyzed as having a total of ten (10)<br />

different kinds of words. Every single <strong>Greek</strong> word you encounter in the GNT will<br />

t into one of these word classes! We’ll take a look at all of them now to get the big<br />

picture in view, though you won’t yet be responsible for all of them. [The “Typical<br />

Roles” described below are very general, but are useful to us here at the outset.]<br />

Part of Speech Typical Role English Example Interlinear Code (in Mounce)<br />

1) verb sets in motion an action or state I saw the president. v (verb)<br />

2) noun person, place, “thing” I saw the president. n (noun)<br />

3) article particularizes a noun I saw the president. d (denite article)<br />

4) adverb modies a verb I saw the president yesterday. adv (adverb)<br />

5) adjective modies a noun I saw the former president yesterday. a (adjective)<br />

6) conjunction adds things together I saw the president and the rst lady. cj (conjunction)<br />

7) pronoun replaces a noun I saw them yesterday. r (pronoun)<br />

8) preposition relates a noun to the sentence I saw them in the deli yesterday. p (preposition)<br />

9) interjection attention-getting device Hey! I saw them yesterday! j (interjection)<br />

10) particle adds tone or nuance to a sentence I indeed saw them yesterday. pl (particle)<br />

4: The (Denite) Article<br />

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