[B-Greek] little problem
jerry
gerald_davis at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 19 11:05:08 EDT 2009
Thanks,
Ya, ya, ya. I see. When I did the prepositions in the previous chapter I
didn't really think, "prepositional phrase," because I was so intent on the
meaning of the preposition relative to some other (where is it?) case of a
noun. Duh -- phrase. I think this is going to help. The "verb-less
clause" issue.
What we ought to do, and maybe some people do, is take a year to really,
really! learn grammar in general before we take on a different language.
But Mastronarde does try to teach what we need, in fact, in this chap 7 re.
phrases and clauses. I'm just a slow learner.
jerry
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From: "Shumaker, Dave" <DShumaker at bbc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:25 AM
To: "jerry" <gerald_davis at hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [B-Greek] little problem
> Jerry,
> It seems to me that the problem with the translation, "the difficult
> journey is along the river" is that it takes a prepositional phrase in the
> attributive position and makes it into a verb-less clause.
>
> Para τὸν ποταμον being in the attributive position makes it a modifier of
> ἡ ὁδος .
>
> I trust this helps,
>
> Dshumaker
>
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> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of jerry
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:08 AM
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>
> Hey, y'all,
>
> No one is doing Mastronarde Unit Seven right now, and I have a problem.
>
> From Exercise II., 6. ἡ παρὰ τὸν ποταμὸν ὁδος χαλεπή.
>
> The answer key says, "The road along the river is difficult," and I am
> sure they thought that was easy for us beginners, especially since they
> gave us the "along the river" example, earlier.
>
> But I had a problem with τὸν ποταμὸν being accusative, so I thought, in
> context, "The difficult journey is beyond the river," would be a good
> translation as a nice little metaphor; or, "The road is hard beyond the
> river."
>
> So I guess that their suggestion has a couple implied verbs, "The
> oad -[which is]- along the river -[is]- difficult." I can live with
> that, except when there seems to be good alternatives.
>
> -----
> jerry davis
> φλόριδα, USA
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