Download or read book An Elementary Greek Grammar (Classic Reprint) written by LL D and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Elementary Greek Grammar The sections on the Syntax of the Verb contain a con densed statement of the principles which I have explained at greater length in a larger work, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, to which I must refer more advanced students, and especially teachers, for a fuller exposition of this subject.1 I must still confess myself unable to give any general definitions which shall include all the uses of either the indicative, the subjunctive, or the optative, and yet be accurate enough to meet modern scientific demands. The truth must be recognized that these moods were not invented deliberately to express certain definite classes of ideas to the exclusion of all others, and then always held rigidly to these pre-deter mined uses. On the contrary, their various uses grew up gradually, as language was developed and found new ideas to express. Both the Greek and the Latin inherited most of their modal forms through a line of ancestors now lost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.