Nominative- Accusative case & Subject, Object, and Free Word Order
Nominative & Accusative case When we use the nominative case. The nominative case indicates the subject in a sentence: Who…
Subject
Subjects are optional
A clause always has a subject and a verb. However, in Greek the subject might be omitted. This happens because…
Subject-Verb agreement
In both Greek and English, a verb must agree with its subject in number and person. When the subject is…
Word order
In Greek the subject or the object may either precede or follow the verb. The noun endings and not the…
predicate [κατηγορούμενο]
With some verbs (copula verbs: είμαι, γίνομαι, φαίνομαι, μοιάζω, δείχνω, σπουδάζω, μένω, παραμένω, θεωρούμαι etc.) the noun phrase modifies the…
Cases and syntactic functions
THE GREEK LANGUAGE The Greek language, like all human languages, has a Lexicon and a Grammar that are…