[B-Greek] Infinitives

Harold R. Holmyard III hholmyard at ont.com
Wed Oct 19 17:45:24 EDT 2005


Dear Diana,

>   I was wondering a little about Infinitives, I am not too familiar with
>them, but I know that they are translated mostly with a "to" before the
>verb.  Well, I was wondering if the infinitves have pronouns attached in
>them.  May be a silly question but as far as I know they do not.  I guess
>I am asking kind of if you could get this out of just one infinitive, not
>looking at the context of the Biblical passage, EX.   "  to loan THEM"
>and if the pronoun is added, is it because of the context of the passage?


HH: Greek infinitives cannot takes pronoun suffixes, but they can 
have pronoun objects or subjects. Yes, it is context that determines 
their usage.

				Yours,
				Harold Holmyard



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