CHAPT 8 PREPOSITIONS Flashcards
ἦν . The past tense form of which word?
ἐστίν is ἦν, “he/she/it was.” It occurs frequently, and you should memorize it now.
Movable nu . A movable nu is a ν occurring at the
end of a word that ends with a vowel when the following word begins with a vowel
(e.g., εἰσὶν αὐτοί). The purpose of adding the ν was to avoid the pause necessary to pronounce both vowels.
A preposition is anything a rabbit can do with its home.
He can go in it, around it, dig under it, etc.
A dependent clause is a
collection of words that cannot stand alone. It has meaning only when it is part of a complete sentence; it is dependent upon that sentence.
Dependent Clause (ίνα)
“In order that.”
Are Prepositions Inflected?
The form of a preposition does not vary depending on its usage; it is not inflected. The preposition παρά will be παρά whether its object is in the genitive, dative, or accusative. The only time the preposition changes its form has nothing to do with inflection. When certain prepositions ending in a vowel are followed by a word beginning with a vowel , the final vowel of the preposition may be dropped and marked with an apostrophe (“elision,” cf. 4.2).
But other prepositions can be followed by two cases, and a few can even be followed by three cases. Meaning…
The object will never be in the nominative (except under rare circumstances).
Some prepositions are always followed by the same case. This means…
They only have one set of meanings. For example, the preposition ἐν always takes an object in the dative and has the basic meaning, “in.”
In Greek, the meaning of a preposition depends upon the case of its object . Meaning =
For example, the preposition διά means “through” if its object is in the genitive, but “on account of” if its object is in the accusative. 2 The object almost always immediately follows the preposition.
Predicate nominative .
The verb “to be” gives rise to a special situation. (The verb “to be” has many different forms: “am”; “are”; “was”; “were”; etc.) If you say, “The teacher is I,” the pronoun “I” is not receiving the action of the verb. Rather, it is telling you something about the subject. Because it is not receiving the action of the verb, the pronoun cannot be a direct object. Rather, it is called a “predicate nominative” and is put in the subjective case.
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If the word is a____, it is probably the subject.
pronoun
The second function of the nominative case is the…
Predicate nominative .
Just as it is in English, a noun that follows εἰμί is not receiving the action from the verb but rather is telling you something about the subject. Therefore the word is in the nominative case and not the accusative.
What’s is a prepositional phrase is?
The preposition together with its object and modifiers.. In the first example above, the prepositional phrase is “under the table.”
Which case is the object of the preposition always in?
the objective case.
EX. You would not say, “The book is under he.” You say, “The book is under him.” “He” is subjective and “him” is objective.
The word that follows the preposition is called the…
object of the preposition.
EX. “The book is under the table,”
the object of the preposition “under” is “table.”