[B-Greek] please explain

Sarah Madden sarah.r.madden at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 12:00:57 EDT 2009


Herb --
Any first-year Greek grammar book (e.g.,Bill Mounce's *Basics of Biblical
Greek* and others) explains that the neuter plural subject is often used
with a singular verb. Authors highlight this point because it seems odd to
us as English speakers that the subject and verb don't "match."

Sarah ><>
Maryland

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Herb Picoski <pic3lite at telus.net> wrote:

> Thank You,
> Carl, Barry, and George.
> In my haste to get through this text, I didn't research my tenses
> adequately.
> However, I did not know about the exception to use singular verb with
> plural neuter subjects.
> Great heads up.
> I will list the text next time, although my font didn't seem to provide
> characters.
> Hopefully, transliteration will suffice.
> Herb
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