Chapter 15 - Notes

Question 1

What is a verb?

Answer 1

A verb is a word that describes action or state of being.

Question 2

How many persons are there?

Answer 2

1. First person is the person speaking (“I,” “we”).
2. Second person is the person being spoken to (“you”).
3. Third person is the person/thing spoken about (“he,” “she,” “it,” “they,” all nouns and pronouns, except personal pronouns).

Question 3

True or false. A verb doesn’t need to agree with its subject in person and number.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

True or false. In Greek, the verb agrees with its subject by using personal endings, which are suffixes added to the end of the verb.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Does a Greek sentence need an expressed subject?

Answer 5

No. The verb ending can indicate it.

Question 6

What two connotations does a Greek tense carry?

Answer 6

aspect and time.

Question 7

What is the aspect in Greek?

Answer 7

The basic genius of the Greek verb is not its ability to indicate when the action of the verb occurs (time), but what type of action it describes, or what we call “aspect.”

Question 8

What are the three aspects in Greek?

Answer 8

1. The perfective aspect means that the action of the verb is thought of as a simple event, without commenting on whether or not it is a process.
2. The imperfective aspect means that the action of the verb is thought of as an ongoing process.
3. Don’t need third aspect yet

Question 9

What does voice mean?

Answer 9

Greek uses a different set of personal endings to differentiate the active from the passive.

Question 10

What is the indicative mood?

Answer 10

The indicative mood is the form of the verb used when making statements and most questions.

Question 11

What is the difference between the root and the stem?

Answer 11

The root is the most basic form of a word and carries its basic meaning. The stem of a verb is the form of the root that is used in a particular tense.

Question 12

What is the rule for connecting vowels in the indicative mood?

Answer 12

In the indicative mood, if the personal ending begins with μ or ν, the connecting vowel is ο; the connecting vowel in every other case is ε. If no personal ending is used, the connecting vowel can be either ο or ε.

Question 13

True or false. The lexical form of verbs is always in the first person singular, present indicative.

Answer 13

True