Prepositions and word order
Mike Sangrey
mike at sojurn.lns.pa.us
Sat Apr 29 20:02:05 EDT 2000
With Clayton bringing up several sentence structure issues, I thought I might
ask a question along those same lines.
Let's say I have a sentence of the form S-Pp-V-Pp.
Should the two prepositional phrases be thought of two equal modifiers of the
Verb? In a picture, it would look like:
V
/ \
Pp Pp
What brought this question up and will provide a concrete example is I Timothy
2:11:
GUNH EN hHSUXIAi MANQANETW EN PASHi hUPOTAGH
I'm toying with B. Ward Powers' thought of GUNH as 'wife', so the translation
I've come up with is:
A wife should in quietness and complete obedience acquire understanding.
Although I like better 'quiescence' for 'quietness' and 'obedience in all
areas' for 'complete obedience'. That's a different question than the one I'm
asking here.
Thanks ahead of time.
--
Mike Sangrey
mike at sojurn.lns.pa.us
Landisburg, Pa.
There is no 'do' in faith, everywhere present within it is 'done'.
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