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Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Greek: Learning Biblical Greek Grammatical Concepts through English Grammar is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

PHONE(ME) is a sound or speech unit that is psychologically a single unit and that makes a difference. Make a /z/ sound, as in zebra. Now make a /v/ sound, as in victory. The sounds or speech units /z/ and /v/ are psychologically each a single unit and each makes a difference. The first word, after all, makes no sense if we say vebra; and zictory is equally nonsensical. βόνος does not clearly communicate that you mean to say μόνος. Linguists use slashed lines to represent phonemes. These abstract
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