Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, Part IV: Syntax, PECULIARITIES IN THE USE OF PERSON

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Table of Contents:

Part I: Letters, Sounds, Syllables, Accent

Part II: Inflection

Part III: Formation of Words

Part IV: Syntax

SYNTAX OF THE SIMPLE SENTENCE

KINDS OF SIMPLE SENTENCES

EXPANSION OF THE SIMPLE SENTENCE

AGREEMENT: THE CONCORDS

OMISSION OF THE SUBJECT

CASE OF THE SUBJECT: THE NOMINATIVE

CONCORD OF SUBJECT AND PREDICATE

PECULIARITIES IN THE USE OF NUMBER

PECULIARITIES IN THE USE OF GENDER

PECULIARITIES IN THE USE OF PERSON

THE ARTICLE — ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT

THE VERB: VOICES

VERBAL ADJECTIVES IN -τέος

SUMMARY OF THE FORMS OF SIMPLE SENTENCES

COMPOUND AND COMPLEX SENTENCES: COÖRDINATION AND SUBORDINATION

SYNTAX OF THE COMPOUND SENTENCE

SYNTAX OF THE COMPLEX SENTENCE

CLASSES OF SUBORDINATE CLAUSES

ADVERBIAL COMPLEX SENTENCES ( 2193 - 2487 ）

ADJECTIVE CLAUSES ( RELATIVE CLAUSES: 2488- 2573 ）

DEPENDENT SUBSTANTIVE CLAUSES ( 2574 - 2635 ）

INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES (QUESTIONS)

INDIRECT (DEPENDENT) QUESTIONS

EXCLAMATORY SENTENCES

NEGATIVE SENTENCES

SOME GRAMMATICAL AND RHETORICAL FIGURES

Appendix: List of Verbs

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PECULIARITIES IN THE USE OF PERSON

[*] 1016. τὶς or πᾶς may be used in the drama with the second person of the imperative: ἴτω τις, εἰσάγγελλε go, one of you, announce E. Bacch. 173.

[*] 1017. The second person singular is used to designate an imaginary person, as in proverbs: ““ψυ_χῆς ἐπιμελοῦ τῆς σεαυτοῦ” care for thy own soul” Men. Sent. 551, and in such phrases as εἶδες ἄν you would have seen (1784 a), ἡγήσαιο ἄν you might think, as credideris (1824).

a. Hdt. uses the second person in directions to travellers (2. 30).

See also 942.

American Book Company, 1920.

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