October 7 - 3.1: More Greek Alphabet Material/Unit 2 Flashcards

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When gamma comes before a (γγ) gamma, kappa (γκ), a chi (γχ), or xi (γξ)

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That gamma is pronounced as an ‘n’

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What two tests can be used to find if a word is a noun?

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Morphological and syntactical

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NOUN morphological test

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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.

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NOUN syntactical test

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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”

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ADJECTIVE morphological test

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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”

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ADJECTIVE syntactical test

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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

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Noun modifier

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Nouns that come before and modify a head noun

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VERB morphological test

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You can change tense

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VERB syntactic test

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Word order.

Use SVO and SV. Subject verb object or subject verb.

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Transitive verbs

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The action goes from the subject across the verb to an object (ex: the dog chases the deer)

ex: The dog chases the deer

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Intransitive verbs

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The action does not go across the verb to an object.

ex: The dog waits patiently

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Adverbs

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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)

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Pro tempore

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For the time
Today = temporary

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Ex oficio

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Out of duty/from duty
Today = by virtue of one’s office or official position

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Magnum opus

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Great work
Today = one’s masterpiece

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Persona non grata

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Person not welcome
Today = person officially banned from a place because of past offensive behavior or some political ideology

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Ex cathedra

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Out of/from the chair/seat (of a bishop)
Today = (to speak) from a position of authority