[B-Greek] Greek for English students

Joseph Weaks j.weaks at tcu.edu
Sun May 9 22:10:21 EDT 2004


On May 9, 2004, at 7:20 PM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> At 6:53 AM -0700 5/9/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>> ...Perhaps the top 2 or 3 grammatical issues
>> that English students have a difficult time grasping.
>
> One fundamental item that regularly confounds students of Greek is the
> variety of ways that participles can function in Greek

Not surprisingly, this is an excellent list from Carl. The need for a 
tremendous amount of practice and internalizing of Greek usage of 
participles is the reason I think Mounce's approach (of leaving verbs 
and finally participles to the last weeks of a semester) is nearly 
fatal.

Joe Weaks


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Rev. Joseph A. Weaks
Senior Minister, Bethany Christian Church, Dallas
Leander Keck Fellow of NT Studies, Brite Divinity School, Ft. Worth
j.weaks at tcu.edu
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