[B-Greek] Fwd: Adverbial participle's case
Stephen Cooper
stephen.cooper at email.fandm.edu
Mon Aug 22 10:21:45 EDT 2005
I prefer the other term for an adverbial particle, namely,
circumstantial particle, since the participial clause adds something
about the circumstances under which the action of the main clause is
taking place. The case of the circumstantial/adverbial follows the
rules of the case for any participle, as Eric has clarified below.
Stephen Cooper
>
> > What determines the CASE of an Adverbial participle?
>>
>> Mitch Larramore
>> Sugar Land, Texas
>
>I suspect the case of the noun or pronoun who is "____-ing". E.g.:
>
>1. I saw the man (while he was) swimming. "Man" is accusative, and hence so
>is "swimming" (to agree in case, gender and number with "man," to
>whom "swimming"
>refers).
>
>2. While swimming, I saw the man on the shore. Swimming is
>nominative to agree with the
>implied subject, "I" - i.e., While (I was) swimming, I saw the man
>on the shore.
>
>3. While Jesus was speaking to the crowd, the apostles went into
>town. Genitive absolute,
>both "Jesus" and "was speaking" are in the genitive case, because
>Jesus is not the subject
>of the sentence - "the apostles" is the subject.
>
>
>
>
>Eric S. Weiss
>
>
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