The expansion of the simple sentence is always an expansion of a complete sentence. Or in other words; a predicate cannot be expanded until it is first completed or modified and a subject cannot be expanded unless it is already contained in the sentence? Is that correct? I just want to verify that I understand the comments in Smyth 922 – 924 correctly.
Mark 14:60c τί οὗτοί σου καταμαρτυροῦσιν;
At Mark 14:60c I would identify καταμαρτυροῦσιν; as the predicate but it seems to me that a predicate with a transitive verb can be both complemented and expanded by a noun in any of the oblique cases – right? If so, how do I determine whether τί or σου is the complement? Or is it possible they together make the complement?
