An Elementary Greek Grammar

William Watson Goodwin

Ginn and Heath, 1880 - Greek language - 393 pages

Contents

• INTRODUCTION The Greek Language and Dialects: 1
• Collision of Vowels Hiatus: 8
• Syllables and their Division: 17
• Proclitics 24: 24
• INFLECTION 32 Definitions Inflection Root Stem Ending: 26
• Three Declensions of Nouns: 28
• Paradigms of First Declension 29: 29
• Contract Nouns of First Declension 30: 30
• Dialects of First Declension: 31
• 1 Paradigms of Second Declension 32: 32
• Attic Second Declension: 33
• Dialects of Second Declension: 34
• NOTE Comparison of Caseendings in the Three Declensions: 35
• Nominative Singular of Third Declension 36: 36
• Accusative Singular of Third Declension: 37
• Vocative Singular of Third Declension: 38
• Dative Plural of Third Declension: 39
• 5156 Paradigms of Nouns of Third Declension with Stems in or Vowel Stems chiefly contract 4247: 42
• Syncopated Nouns of Third Declension 47: 47
• Gender of Third Declension: 49
• ADJECTIVES 6264 Adjectives of the First and Second Declensions 53: 53
• Contract Adjectives of the First and Second Declensions 5456: 54
• Adjectives of the Third Declension 56: 57
• Participles in ων as εις υς ως 5961: 59
• Contract Participles in αων εων οων 61: 61
• Declension of μέγας πολύς and πρᾶος 62: 62
• Comparison of Adjectives 71 Comparison by τερος τατος: 64
• Irregular Comparison 65: 65
• ADVERBS AND THEIR COMPARISON 74 Adverbs formed from Adjectives: 67
• NUMERALS 76 Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers and Numeral Adverbs 68: 68
• Declension of Cardinal Numbers c 69: 69
• THE ARTICLE 78 Declension of ὁ ἡ τό: 71
• Reflexive Pronouns 73: 73
• Reciprocal Pronoun: 74
• 84 85 Interrogative and Indefinite Pronouns 76: 76
• Relative Pronouns 7778: 77
• Pronominal Adjectives and Adverbs 78: 78
• VERBS 8891 Voices Moods Tenses Numbers and Persons 7981: 79
• Tense Stems Principal Parts of a Greek Verb 8184: 81
• Verbs in w and Verbs in μι 84: 84
• CONJUGATION OF VERBS IN Ω 94 Present Stem of Verbs in w: 85
• Meaning of the Forms of the Verb 92: 92
• Paradigm of the Regular Verb in w 94110: 94
• Syllabic and Temporal Augment and Reduplication: 99
• Perfect and Pluperfect Middle and Passive of Verbs with Consonant Stems 111114: 111
• 1: 112
• 98 Contract Verbs in aw ew and ow 115118: 115
• Omission of Augment: 124
• Modification of the Stem in certain Tenses: 135
• Table of TenseStems: 141
• Terminations of the Imperative: 148
• CONJUGATION OF VERBS IN μι: 156
• Second Perfect and Pluperfect of the μιform: 167
• Genitive as Ablative Genitive of Separation: 174
• FORMATION OF WORDS 128 1 Simple and Compound Words: 180
• Suffixes: 181
• 129 130 Formation of Simple Words 182187: 182
• Formation of Compound Words 187189: 187
• Meaning of Compounds 189: 189
• SYNTAX 133 Subject Predicate Object 191: 191
• 1 Subject Nominative of Finite Verbs: 192
• Subject Nominative and Verb 193: 193
• Predicate in same Case as Subject 194: 194
• Apposition 195: 195
• Adjectives agreeing with Nouns 196198: 196
• Adjective used as a Noun 198: 198
• Homeric Use of the Article as Pronoun 199: 199
• Attic Use of the Article as Definite Article 200: 200
• Position of the Article 201204: 201
• Pronominal Article in Attic ὁ μέν ὁ δέ c 204: 204
• 144 145 Personal and Intensive Pronouns 205: 205
• Reflexive Pronouns 206: 206
• Possessive Pronouns: 207
• Demonstrative Pronouns: 208
• Indefinite Pronoun: 209
• Relative with omitted Antecedent: 210
• Relative in Exclamations c: 212
• Accusative of Extent of Time or Space: 216
• Genitive after Verbs signifying: 222
• 1: 225
• Dative of Place Poetic: 236
• Tenses of the Participle: 252
• Two Uses of the Adverb Av 253: 253
• Classification of Constructions of Moods: 259
• Present and Past Conditions with simple Indicative: 267
• Relative with Definite Antecedent: 275
• Ὥστε sometimes ὡς with Indicative: 279
• Infinitive and Participle in Indirect Quotations: 285
• Present Imper or Aor Subj in Prohibitions: 291
• Infinitive after ὥστε οι ὡς: 297
• Infinitive in Laws Treaties Proclamations c 298: 298
• Participle like Infin in Indirect Discourse see 246 304: 305
• VERSIFICATION: 311
• Anapaestic Systems: 323
• CATALOGUE OF VERBS 329360: 329

Popular passages

Page 17 - The syllable next to the last is called the penult (pen-ultima, almost last) ; the one before the penult is called the antepenult. 2. A pure syllable is one whose vowel or diphthong immediately follows another vowel or diphthong ; as the last syllable of ф1\еш, olicía, NOTE.

Page 209 - A Relative pronoun agrees with its Antecedent in gender and number, but its case depends on the construction of the clause in which it stands (§ 198).

Bibliographic information

• Title: An Elementary Greek Grammar
• Author: William Watson Goodwin
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Ginn and Heath, 1880
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Feb 21, 2007
• Length: 393 pages