By contrast, Greek is an inflected (sometimes called synthetic) language, in which meaning is indicated by various morphemes (prefixes and suffixes) added to words to indicate how they are related to other words in the sentence.18 As a result, what we assume to be “normal” word order in an English sentence can be very different in Greek, since the inflectional endings on the words tell us which word is the subject and which the object, and so forth. 1.23. Other than word order, there are additional
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