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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...

Now that you know the parts of speech, let’s talk about how sentences are put together. A sentence is a combination of words that express a complete thought: “Life is short.” “Is life short?” “How short life is!” How words are joined together to convey meaning is called syntax. There can be no sentence, however short, without syntax, however little. It is by expressing a complete thought that a sentence differs from its subordinate parts, the phrase and
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