Chapter 1 TENSE AND ASPECT, AND PERIPHRASTIC CONSTRUCTIONS Introduction Since the days of the earliest grammarians of Greek, who happened to be Greek speakers themselves, it has been recognized that the verb occupies a very important place in the Greek language. This is not to say that other grammatical elements are not very important, or that there are not other languages which place similar importance on the verb, but the flexibility and range of usage of the verb in Greek commends it to further
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