§3.3c (50): “The sentence, for example, is difficult to isolate and define”—defining the sentence provides one of the enduring challenges in biblical Hebrew grammar. From an English standpoint, students might find that a little puzzling and even frustrating. IBHS does not stand as a complete grammar, because Waltke and O’Connor do not present a full treatment of the sentence and its major clauses. This situation prevents the volume from challenging the long reign of Gesenius-Kautzsch-Cowley (GKC)3
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