Introducing the cases: round two

Jonathan Robie (jwrobie@mindspring.com)
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:26:28 -0500

I'm trying to put together a simplified explanation of the Greek cases that
can be summarized in a table. I notice that a lot of the uses of cases can
be summarized reasonably well by an English preposition. What would ye think
of a summary table like this for an introduction to the cases:

Nominative Subject Who Verbed?
Predicate Subject is a Predicate.
Accusative Direct object Subject Verbed the Direct object.
Dative
Pure dative Indirect object To whom did Subject Verb the Direct object?
For whom did Subject Verb the Direct object?
Locative dative "in" X
Instrumental dative "with" X
Genitive
Pure genitive "of" X
Ablative genitive "from" X

Do you think this would be helpful?

Jonathan
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