[B-Greek] predicative, attributive and case
Ken Penner
pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
Tue Aug 12 09:29:38 EDT 2003
Hi James,
If I understand your question correctly, the "rule" you are looking for is
that a clause generally has only one verb.
In your example, "We are going to the church is good on Sunday," I'm
guessing that the focus is on the relationship between "church" and "good,"
and in the source language, "is" is not present, but the words for "church"
and "good" are juxtaposed. Your example already has the verb "are going",
so we shouldn't add "is". In other words, the original language word for
"good" is used attributively, not predicatively.
Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Biblical Languages, Greek Focus), M.A. (Hebrew Poetry)
Ph.D. (cand.), McMaster University
pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
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