Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, chapter 999

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Part I: Letters, Sounds, Syllables, Accent Part II: Inflection Part III: Formation of Words Part IV: Syntax Appendix: List of Verbs

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DEFINITIONS SYNTAX OF THE SIMPLE SENTENCE KINDS OF SIMPLE SENTENCES EXPANSION OF THE SIMPLE SENTENCE AGREEMENT: THE CONCORDS THE SUBJECT OMISSION OF THE SUBJECT CASE OF THE SUBJECT: THE NOMINATIVE THE PREDICATE CONCORD OF SUBJECT AND PREDICATE PECULIARITIES IN THE USE OF NUMBER PECULIARITIES IN THE USE OF GENDER PECULIARITIES IN THE USE OF PERSON ADJECTIVES ADVERBS THE ARTICLE — ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT PRONOUNS THE CASES PREPOSITIONS THE VERB: VOICES VERBAL NOUNS THE PARTICIPLE 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 PARTICLES SOME GRAMMATICAL AND RHETORICAL FIGURES

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[*] 999. Dual.—The dual is chiefly employed of two persons or things which, by nature or association, form a pair: ὀφθαλμώ the eyes (both eyes), χεῖρε the hands, ἵππω a span of horses. The addition of ἄμφω both indicates that the two things belong together: δύο emphasizes the number. Both ἄμφω and δύο were early used with the plural. The dual died out in the living speech of Attica by 300 B.C. Aeolic has no dual, and Ionic lost it very early. In Hom. the dual is used freely, and often in conjunction with the plural.

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