[B-Greek] Newbie question on 1 John 1:10

Raymond Regalado fwgk5942 at mb.infoweb.ne.jp
Fri Dec 19 19:33:13 EST 2003


On 2003.12.20, at 04:38  AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> At 2:15 AM +0900 12/20/03, Raymond Regalado wrote:
>> On 2003.12.20, at 01:49  AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>> This is usually referred to as a "predicate accusative" construction;
>> <snip>
>>
>> Dr. Conrad,
>>
>> Thanks for the extremely helpful response.  I guess this a subject
>> taken up in "second-year Greek" then?
>
> Actually, I don't see how one could complete a first-year course 
> without
> coming face-to-face with this construction--one meets it with such
> frequency that I don't see how it could be avoided in ordinary reading.

I see.  I did come face to face with this just yesterday, as I was 
doing an exercise in Summers' grammar, but my problem was I don't 
remember the grammar behind this being explained in Summers.

Thanks,

Raymond Regalado
Tokyo, Japan




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