Ellen, don't put yourself down! We all developed littlle tricks to help
ourselves at some point in learning Greek. I used to take a pencil and
lightly underline the suffixes of nouns and adjectives that modified them
at one point in my distant past. I circled the infixes, suffixes, or
prefixes that helped me parse verbs correctly. In complicated sentences I
devised a way to mark subjects and verbs that "went together." What helps,
is useful--and when you outgrow what may seem [to quote one of my favorite
writers] "childish things," well, you put them away.
Your system of identifying voices sounds useful--and if I t each beginning
Greek again, I may steal it--maybe with due credits. Congratulate yourself
for a helpful discovery.
Edgar Krentz, New Testament
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