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The present book is adapted not only to students who have no previous acquaintance with Greek at all but, also, to those whose acquaintance with Greek is so imperfect that a renewed course of elementary instruction is needed. Lack of previous study of classical Attic prose need bar no honest student from acquiring the ability to read the easier Greek of the New Testament. This book is an...

40. Here the rule of noun accent decrees that the accent must be on the ultima in all cases, because it was there in the nominative singular. But which accent shall it be? The general rules of accent answer this question where the ultima is short; for of course only an acute, not a circumflex, can stand on a short syllable. But where the ultima is long, the general rules of accent will permit either an acute or a circumflex. A special rule is therefore necessary. It is as follows: In the second declension,
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