Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Greek: Learning Biblical Greek Grammatical Concepts through English Grammar (Biblia.com)

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Voice, tense, mood, participles. Learning biblical Greek is tough enough with a firm grasp of the building blocks of English and daunting to those without. But that’s just where many first-year students are. Through many years in the classroom, veteran language instructor Gary Long has learned that it’s in the first semester that many students get bogged down in grammatical basics. Soon...

The form of words can change. This is known as INFLECTION. Notice, for example, a couple of ways that English can inflect to show plurality. Student becomes students. The concept of plurality—or to be more linguistically precise, the morpheme of ‘plurality’—is conveyed in this word through adding an -s. Woman, on the other hand, becomes women. Changing an internal vowel conveys plurality in this particular word. An inflectional pattern is called a DECLENSION. This word is especially at

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