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Hellenika: A Beginning Greek Textbook Based on the Koine Greek of the New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

Hellenika is a textbook to be used in teaching the Greek of the New Testament. Its focus is the grammar of Koine Greek, the “Common Greek” used at the time of the writing of the New Testament. Beginning with the Greek alphabet, Hellenika presents a series of twenty-eight lessons covering the basics of Greek grammar. Each lesson concludes with an assignment designed to teach the rudiments of the...

1.3 THE BASIC UNIT OF COMMUNICATION - THE SENTENCE A sentence is the basic unit of communication, written or spoken. There are different kinds of sentences. A simple sentence consists of a subject and a verb. Example: "Jesus wept." (John 11:35) In this two-word sentence the subject is “Jesus” and the verb is “wept.” There may also be one-word sentences, such as in a command: “Go!” The subject, “you” is implied or understood. There are also compound sentences consisting of more than one subject or
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