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Old 05-15-2008, 02:25 AM
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My experience watching my fellow students back in my beginning Greek days is that people could learn Greek (or any language) with a lot less pain if they were familiar with English grammar - and English grammatical terms.

If someone doesn't know what an adverb is in English, he's not going to know what one is in Greek.

I think beginning Greek grammars should include a definition of basic grammatical terms: verbs, adverbs, participles, etc.
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