Term
Uses of Demonstrative Pronoun |
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1 - Deitic (points out something either near or removed distance)
2 - Contemptuous (expresses disdain for someone or something)
3 - Anaphoric (refers back to something immediately preceding)
4 - Kataphoric (refers to something following) |
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1 - Attributive (adjective assigns a quality to the word modified)
2 - Predicate (adjective makes a statement about the noun it modifies)
3 - Substantival (adjective does not modify a noun, but instead acts like a noun) |
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Definition
1 - Nominative (designates the subject of the verb)
2 - Genetive (describe or denotes possession)
3 - Dative (expresses interest; it denotes the indirect object which is the person (object) to whom or for whom something is done)
4 - Accusative (receives the verb's actoin as a direct object, thereby limiting the verb)
5 - Vocative (identifies the person (object) addressed or spoken to) |
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Uses of the Personal Pronoun |
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Definition
1 - As a personal pronoun (anaphoric) (it takes the place of a noun to avoid monotony)
2 - Emphasis (When the nominative pronoun is used to identify the subject, it conveys special stress, often in some kind of contrast)
3 - Possession (genetive case of the pronoun denotes ownership)
4 - Attributive (When preceded by the article, any case, gener, or number of αὐτός has the meaning of "the same"
5 - Intensive (standing in the predicate position and usually translated by some form of "--self," the pronoun αὐτός emphasizes the identity of the word which it modifies.) |
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Term
Passive Voice Agents
Ultimate Agent |
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Definition
- an intelligent (divine, angelic, human) being directly produces the action
(ὑπό or ἀπό or παρά + genetive) |
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Passive Voice Agents
Intermediate Agent |
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Definition
- an intelligent being, as a go-between, indirectly produces the verb's action
(δίά + genetive) |
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Term
Passive Voice Agents
Impersonal Agent |
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Definition
A thing, object, force, power, etc. produces the verb's actoin
(with or without ἐν + dative or by ἐκ + genetive) |
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Passive Voice Agents
Unexpressed Agent |
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Definition
the agent producing the verb's action isn't mentioned, it being left to the context, history, theology, etc., to identify the agent; this is called the theological passive when God is the unnamed agent. |
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