[B-Greek] hO KURIOS TO PNEUMA - subject or predicate?

Blue Meeksbay bluemeeksbay at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 18 09:20:36 EST 2010


Hi Oun –
 
I think in this case the normal subject-verb position would prevail and the subject would be followed after the linking verb by what is called a “subject compliment” which renames or defines the subject. The eye would be the subject compliment in this case. Perhaps someone on the list who is an English professor might be able to give you more accurate information, but I believe this is how the sentence should be understood.
 
Sincerely,
Blue Harris




________________________________
From: Oun Kwon <kwonbbl at gmail.com>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Wed, February 17, 2010 2:09:31 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] hO KURIOS TO PNEUMA - subject or predicate?

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Blue Meeksbay <bluemeeksbay at yahoo.com> wrote:
<clipped>
>
> Below is a list of those verses I found that had a similar construction using ESTIN.
>
<clipped>
>
> hO LUCNOS TOU SWMATOS ESTIN hO OFQALMOS. EAN OUN Hi hO OFQALMOS SOU hAPLOUS, hOLON TO SWMA SOU FWTEINON ESTAI·
> Mt 6:22
>
> Subject verb predicate – Most translations
> Predicate verb subject – ESV, NIV

<Clipped>

> Blue Harris
>

Hi, Blue. I'm glad I have waited to post on this topic to see the
examples you have pulled out.

In this particular example of Mt 6:22 //Lk 11:34, the sense does not
change whichever is taken as the subject. hO OFQALMOS can come at the
beginning?
Maybe when it is read loud (in Greek or in English), just the tone may
come out different.

My question is with English grammar:  In the sentence 'the light of
the body is the eye', how we decide which is the subject? Is it purely
by the position?  (Besides in poems cannot a phrase go freely
anywhere?).

Oun Kwon
---
B-Greek home page: http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek
B-Greek mailing list
B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-greek



      


More information about the B-Greek mailing list