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Chapman & Shogren. This is a book on Koine (Koy-nay) Greek grammar (the spoken Greek of the NT period, and the Greek used in the New Testament). The insert is clearly designed to be an aid to the reader/exegete of the Greek New Testament. The nature of the insert is not necessarily lexical or morphological, rather it strives to educate the user regarding grammatical and syntactical issues faced...

Primarily, a verb tense tells you about the ASPECT, that is, kind of action as the speaker chooses to depict it. The speaker’s choices may be guided by other factors, such as a conventionalized use of a certain aspect with a particular verb. Verbal aspect does not necessarily tell you the whole story of how the action took place in reality (i. e., the Aktionsart), but simply how the speaker/writer chooses to relate it in this context. The verb tenses convey three types of aspect: imperfective (or