October 7 - 3.1: More Greek Alphabet Material/Unit 2 Flashcards
When gamma comes before a (γγ) gamma, kappa (γκ), a chi (γχ), or xi (γξ)
That gamma is pronounced as an ‘n’
What two tests can be used to find if a word is a noun?
Morphological and syntactical
NOUN morphological test
The morphological test is done by seeing if a word can be made plural with the morpheme {s}.
This test won’t always work, though! For example, woman and women, mouse and mice, louse and lice.
NOUN syntactical test
The syntactical test is to see if a word comfortably fits in the position after words that your book calls “noun markers,” which on quizzes will always be “the”
ADJECTIVE morphological test
See if you can add the endings “-er” and “-est.” This works with short adjectives—for longer ones, see if they go with “more” and “most”
ADJECTIVE syntactical test
The syntactical test asks whether the word goes well between a noun marker and its noun, and if it goes well after the word seem(s)
the ___ boy
Noun modifier
Nouns that come before and modify a head noun
VERB morphological test
You can change tense
VERB syntactic test
Word order.
Use SVO and SV. Subject verb object or subject verb.
Transitive verbs
The action goes from the subject across the verb to an object (ex: the dog chases the deer)
ex: The dog chases the deer
Intransitive verbs
The action does not go across the verb to an object.
ex: The dog waits patiently
Adverbs
They modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. They answer the questions of how, when and where
There is no accurate morphological test and no easy syntactical test
ex:
The man left yesterday (yesterday is the adverb)
He will sleep here (here is the adverb)
It was outrageously expensive (outrageously is the adverb)
He approached quite slowly (quite and slowly are the adverbs)
Pro tempore
For the time
Today = temporary
Ex oficio
Out of duty/from duty
Today = by virtue of one’s office or official position
Magnum opus
Great work
Today = one’s masterpiece
