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

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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 GENDER

[*] 1013. Construction according to the Sense (926 a).—The real, not the grammatical, gender often determines the agreement: ὦ φίλτατ᾽, ὦ περισσὰ τι_μηθεὶς τέκνον O dearest, O greatly honoured child E. Tro. 735 (this use of the attributive adjective is poetical), ““τὰ μειράκια πρὸς ἀλλήλους διαλεγόμενοι” the youths conversing with one another” P. Lach. 180e, ““ταῦτ᾽ ἔλεγεν ἡ ἀναιδὴς αὕτη κεφαλή, ἐξεληλυθώς” this shameless fellow spoke thus when he came out” D. 21.117.

[*] 1014. So in periphrases: ἲ_ς Τηλεμάχοιο ἐς πατέρα ἰδών mighty Telemachus, gazing at his father π 476, ““τὸ δὲ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων ἡμῶν . . . χαίροντες τῇ ἐκείνων παιδιᾷ” we the elders delighting in their sport” P. L. 657d.

[*] 1015. The masculine is used for person in general: οὐκ ἀνέξεται τίκτονται ἄλλους, οὐκ ἔχουσ᾽ αὐτὴ τέκνα unfruitful herself, she will not endure that others bear children E. And. 712, ““ὁπότερος ἂν ᾖ βελτί_ων, εἴθ᾽ ὁ ἀνήρ εἴθ᾽ ἡ γυνή” which ever of the two is superior, whether the man or the woman” X. O. 7.27. So οἱ γονεῖς parents, οἱ παῖδες children. See 1055.

See also 1009, 1050.

American Book Company, 1920.

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