Description: Contents Acknowledgments 9 Introduction 11 1. Nouns: You Ain't Nothing but a Noun Dog! (BBG ch. 5) 15 2. Inflection: Trouble Understanding Yoda You Have, Yes? Tne Nature of Inflected Languages. (BBG ch. 6) 21 3. The Article: The Rosetta Stone of the Greek Language, or The Article Is Your Friend, The Other One Is a Relative. (BBG ch. 7) 264. Adjective: What Color Is an Adjective? The Carnival Talkers of theGreek World. (BBG ch. 9) 315. Pronoun: A Noun That Has Lost Its Amateur Status. (BBG ch. 11) 37 6. Verbs:Verbs Have Things to Do. (BBG ch. 15) 41 7. Present: Keep Reading This: The Present Tense (BBG ch. 16) 478. Contraction: Contract Verbs Kill No One. (BBG ch. 17) 509. Passive Verbs: They Don't Just Sit There. (BBG ch. 18) 5410. Deponents: Verbs That Have a Memory Problem. (BBG ch. 18) 5811. Future: When Are You Going to Read This? (BBG ch. 19) 6212. Verbs Again: Principal Parts and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. (BBG ch. 20) 6613. Aorist: You Have Already Read This Chapter, Haven't You? (BBG ch. 22) 7114. Perfect: That Which Is Perfect Has Come (But It Is Not This Chapter). (BBG ch. 25) 7515. Participles: The Fiji Mermaid of the Greek World, or Why Adverbial Participles Don't Wear a Watch. (BBG ch. 26) 7916. Conditional Sentences: If I Were You, I Would Read This Chapter. (BBG ch. 31) 8517. Infinitives: To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before: The World's Most Famous Split Infinitive. (BBG ch. 32) 9018. Imperatives: Read This Chapter! The Bosses of the Greek World. (BBG ch. 33) 96Appendix 1: Glossary of Terms 100 Appendix 2: Tips for Remembering Vocabulary 107 Appendix 3: Sentence Diagramming for Greek Fun and Profit 109

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