A School Greek Grammar

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Macmillan and Company, 1894
 

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Page 11 - A Greek word has as many syllables as it has separate vowels or diphthongs. The syllable next to the last is called, the penult (pen-ultima, almost last) ; the one before the penult is called the antepenult.
Page 166 - A Relative pronoun agrees with its Antecedent in gender and number, but its case depends on the construction of the clause in which it stands (§ 198).
Page 12 - We still, however, see the visible marks on the page, and we know that the acute accent ( ' ) can stand only on one of the last three syllables of a word ; the circumflex ( " ) on one of the last two ; the grave ( % ) only on the last.
Page 158 - Latin grammars) that when two subjects are of different persons, the verb is in "the first person rather than the second, and in the second rather than the third" (si tu et Tullia valetis, ego et Cicero valemus, Allen and Greenough, Lat.
Page 155 - Every sentence must necessarily have two parts, a subject and a predicate. — The subject is that of which something is affirmed ; the predicate...

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