Does anyone know of an introductory grammar that does this?

Perry L. Stepp stratfink at email.msn.com
Wed Sep 6 09:20:47 EDT 2000


Does anyone know of an introductory grammar that introduces verb endings
"cross-ways"?

The "normal" way of teaching verbs is to introduce the endings by case:
first, you study the Present-Active-Indicative endings, and then go on to
aorists, imperfects, etc.

When I first studied Greek, we (using a textbook that the professor wrote
and published himself) instead learned all the 1st person-Active-Indicative
endings for our model verbs.

So instead of walking around the second week singing the P-A-I endings under
my breath, "W-EIS-EI-OMEN-ETE-OUSI(N)", I was singing "W-ON-SW-SA-KA-KEIN"
(the endings for the 1st singular-A-I present, imperfect, future, aorist,
perfect, and pluperfect [respectively] of LUW.)

Are there any generally available introductory grammars that introduce the
verbs this way?

Perry L. Stepp



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