[B-Greek] Memorizing Declensions - Mounce

Stephen Baldwin stbaldwi at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 16 21:31:27 EDT 2006


Hello Mitch:
This question is topical for me.
Before I continue, I should declare my lack of credentials.
Apart from a 2-semester evening class, I am self-taught [as far as I've 
got].
I'm a Mounce man. I started out learning the endings for the nouns etc. per 
your email and it serves me pretty well -- that is for nouns/adjectives.
For verbs, I thought that if I learned the principle parts and the various 
endings for the verbs, that would work too. It hasn't. I still make too many 
basic mistakes and am going bald scratching my head trying to work out some 
of the verbal forms. So,I've nearly completed a mammoth task of going 
through BBG and writing out all the verb paradigms and the Master Verb Chart 
on flashcards in order to commit them to memory.
But even that isn't good enough if one is not reading the text. I can also 
testify, as all the professionals on this list do, that one must be reading 
the GNT [or whatever] in conjunction with these other exercises...

I have also found Mounce's Morphology... to be extremely helpful in these 
travails...

For what it's worth
Steve Baldwin
stbaldwi at hotmail.com




>From: Mitch Larramore <mitchlarramore at yahoo.com>
>To: B Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: [B-Greek] Memorizing Declensions - Mounce
>Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:40:41 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I am unable to reproduce the chart on page 81 of
>Mounce's Basics of Biblical Greek (2nd Edition). But I
>was wondering if this method is how others have
>memorized declensions.
>
>Under 1st/2nd declensions, he has 3 columns of masc
>fem neut. They look something like:
>
>nom sg  S / - / -
>gen sg  U / S / U
>dat sg  i / i / i
>acc sg  N / N / N
>
>To the right of this chart, he gives the 3rd
>declensions under columns masc/fem and neut, thus...
>
>nom sg   S / -
>gen sg  OS / OS
>dat sg   i / i
>acc sg  A,N / -
>
>My question is whether or not others find such charts
>helpful? I have had a tendency to memorize a few
>prototypical nouns from each declension, rather than
>learning 'endings.' Is there a benefit for learning
>endings in this manner?
>
>
>
>
>Mitch Larramore
>Sugar Land, Texas
>
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