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According to David Alan Black, people who teach or write about Greek grammar tend to treat the subject as though it were a green vegetable: “you may not like grammar, but it’s good for you.” It’s Still Greek to Me offers an alternative approach. “I have tried to organize the book in a manner geared to the way people actually use the language, and I have done my utmost to make this book not only...

and person as a noun. Any part of speech that functions as a noun is called a substantive. One reason the early grammarians classed nouns and adjectives together was to avoid the question of what to call an adjective that is used as a noun (as in “a word to the wise is sufficient”). Besides, all the members of the nomen class had the same structure. Each could be seen as a sequence of two elements: a stem followed by an ending. The stem carried the basic meaning of the word, while the ending told
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