Final Exam - December 15, 2017 @ 7:00 PM in our regular classroom
1. Nail down the vocabulary. If you're having troubles, recall that memrise can help. Be sure to know vocabulary both ways: English to Greek as well as Greek to English.
2. Know your principal parts - see Verbs Tab - again, you need to know these both ways: make sure you can get to the progressive stem when you see an aorist form on this list
3. Be prepared to fill in the verbal synopsis sheet, which can be found under the Verbs Tab - use the blank practice sheet found there to ... practice!
4. Be sure to command these paradigms and be ready to write them out without hesitation:
7. Learning Greek is by its nature cumulative, so make sure you're firm on the items listed below for Exams 1 & 2 as well. (Paradigms on this exam will, however, will be drawn only from the list given above.)
2. Know your principal parts - see Verbs Tab - again, you need to know these both ways: make sure you can get to the progressive stem when you see an aorist form on this list
3. Be prepared to fill in the verbal synopsis sheet, which can be found under the Verbs Tab - use the blank practice sheet found there to ... practice!
4. Be sure to command these paradigms and be ready to write them out without hesitation:
- 1st/2nd nouns and adjectives (ὁ καλὸς ἄγρος, ἡ καλὴ κρήνη)
- 3rd declension nouns (ὁ φύλαξ, ὁ παῖς, ὁ ἀνήρ, ὁ βασιλεύς, τὸ τεῖχος)
- adjectives (πᾶς)
- interrogative τίς
- demonstrative οὗτος
- present and imperfect of εἰμί, present of εἶμι
- tense versus aspect
- what happens when the -σα aorist follows a root ending in nu or rho ("asigmatic 1st aorist after nasals and liquids," p. 239)
- three meanings for the imperfect (pp. 249-50)
- genitive of comparison
- superlatives with ὡς
- interrogative versus indefinite pronouns (p. 286)
- rules for contractions in contract verbs (and nouns): p. 305 and pp. 49 + 68
7. Learning Greek is by its nature cumulative, so make sure you're firm on the items listed below for Exams 1 & 2 as well. (Paradigms on this exam will, however, will be drawn only from the list given above.)
Exam 2 - November 3, 2017
1. Nail down the vocabulary. If you're having troubles, recall that memrise can help. Be sure to know vocabulary both ways: English to Greek as well as Greek to English.
2. Be sure to command these paradigms and be ready to write them out without hesitation:
5. Learning Greek is by its nature cumulative, so make sure you're firm on the items listed below for Exam 1 as well. (Paradigms on this exam will, however, will be drawn only from the list given above.)
2. Be sure to command these paradigms and be ready to write them out without hesitation:
- Present progressive middle forms (including imperatives and infinitive) for λύω, φιλέω, τιμάω: λύομαι etc.
- The third declension nouns φύλαξ, παῖς, ὄνομα,and pronoun τίς/τί
- The middle participle, λυόμενος, -η, -ον
- The active participle, λυών, -οῦσα, -όν
- The (irregular) third declension nouns ὁ ἀνήρ, ἡ γυνή, ἡ πόλις, ἡ ναῦς
- The third declension adjectives, πᾶς, πᾶσα, πᾶν and εἷς, μία, ἕν
- The future for λύω (λύσω etc.), κομίζω (κομιῶ etc.), μένω (μενῶ etc.)
- εἷμι, p. 196 (as opposed to εἰμί)
- Participles (verbal adjectives): attributive, circumstantial, supplementary
- Deponent verbs
- Uses of the dative (p. 103) and genitive (p. 170)
- Uses of the article (p. 171)
- Time expressions: Time when, Duration of Time, Time within which (p. 149)
- Impersonal verbs ἔξεστι, δεῖ
5. Learning Greek is by its nature cumulative, so make sure you're firm on the items listed below for Exam 1 as well. (Paradigms on this exam will, however, will be drawn only from the list given above.)
Exam 1 - September 29, 2017
1. Nail down the vocabulary. If you're having troubles, recall that memrise can help. Be sure to know vocabulary both ways: English to Greek as well as Greek to English.
2. Be sure to command these paradigms and be ready to write them out without hesitation:
2. Be sure to command these paradigms and be ready to write them out without hesitation:
- Nouns, singular & plural: ὁ ἀγρός, τὸ δένδρον, ὁ δεσπότης, ἡ κρήνη, ἡ ὑδρία
- Pronouns, singular & plural: ἐγώ, σύ
- Adjectives, singular and plural, all genders: καλός, καλή, καλόν + definite article
- Verbs, single & plural, active, including indicative, imperative + infinitive: λύω, φιλέω, τιμάω
- The cases and their uses
- Persistent accent (nouns) versus recessive accent (verbs) - know the rules and place the accent according to the rules (occasional errors okay)
- Prepositions: ἐκ, εἰς / πρός, ἀπό / ἐπί, ἐν / ἀνά, κατά