Why have Grammar and Topic Questions?
The reason for having grammar questions are numerous. First, they are designed to test the basic knowledge of forms and constructions that ‘pass by’ the student in their first year(s) of Greek. I focus on the harder to grasp and complicated forms and constructions, and also on forms that may have more than one lemma and/or one parsing. If a question is too simple for you, ignore it – it was meant for someone else. Many of the basic questions have answers in the Notes included for each reading under the sections “grammar tips” and “morphology tips.” Second, the questions are designed to get your nose into a grammar. The more one learns Greek, the more one learns you don’t know as much as you think. There are over 1000 years of Greek dialect, vocabulary and syntax change from the time of Homer to the end of Koine Greek. The only way to be aware of early, Attic, Koine, Semitic, etc. constructions is to use a grammar. Smyth’s Grammar is the best out there for the intermediate student (he g
