[B-Greek] Teaching declensions
JMonte2000 at aol.com
JMonte2000 at aol.com
Thu Jun 12 21:03:28 EDT 2008
In a message dated 6/12/2008 8:56:06 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu writes:
When I learned Greek, I was taught things like noun endings, e.g.,
> os, ou, wi, on, e, in the second declension. As I prepare to teach
> a beginning Greek class in the Fall, I am wondering about two
> things. Is it really the case that the noun stem of LOGOS is LOGO
> and the nom.s.mas. second declension ending is S rather than OS?
> Second, is that really helpful to present the endings as S,O,I,N,
> etc.? I'm thinking that teaching students that a second declension
> noun ends OS, OU, Wi, ON, E, etc. is far better, not least because
> you can pronounce ON for purposes of practice, as opposed to only
> N. Any comments? Thanks.
Hi Ken I learned them both, knowing that the ending is S from LOGOS, and
also be able to recognize that it's OS. But the first one I got in my head was
the S. I did that with all of them. That's Bill Mounce's method, you'll see
how he does it in his book, Basic's to Biblical Greek 2nd edition. I liked this
way of learning them.
Grace and peace
Jim Montesano
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