Wallace_Participles

Question 1

What is the temporal adverbial participle? And what are some of its glosses?

Answer 1

1. answers the question when
2. Antecedent: after doing, after he did, (sometimes “when” if close to main verb)
3. Contemporaneous: while doing
4. Subsequent: before doing, before he does

Question 2

What is the participle of attendant circumstance

Answer 2

1. used to communicate an action that, in some sense, is coordinate with the finite verb (semantically it is dependent on a verb, but is translated as a finite verb (“‘Rise and’ eat.”)
2. the participle is something of a prerequisite before the action of the main verb can occur

Question 3

What is a periphrastic participle? And some of its structure?

Answer 3

1. an anarthrous participle used with a verb of being (such as εἰμι, ὑπαρχω) to form a finite verbal idea
2. Almost always nominative; rarely aorist
3. usually follows the verb (exp. ἧν ἐσθιων, “He was eating”)

Question 4

What is an genitive absolute participle?

Answer 4

1. noun or pronoun in the genitive case (may be absent)
2. anarthrous genitive participle (alays)
3. front of sentence (usually
4. different subject than sentence
5. participle is always adverbial (or at leas dependent-verbal)
6. 90% temporal