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Simple sentence

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DEFINITIONS

Complete sentences are simple, compound, or complex. In the simple sentence subject and predicate occur only once. A compound sentence (2162) consists of two or more simple sentences coördinated: τῇ δ᾽ ὑστεραίᾳ ἐπορεύοντο διὰ τοῦ πεδίου, καὶ Τισσαφέρνης εἵπετο but on the next day they marched through the plain and Tissaphernes kept following them X. A. 3.4.18. A complex sentence (2173) consists of a main sentence and one or more subordinate sentences: ὁπότε δέοι γέφῡραν διαβαίνειν, ἔσπευδεν ἕκαστος whenever it was necessary to cross a bridge, every one made haste 3. 4. 20.

syntax of the

SYNTAX OF THE SIMPLE SENTENCE

The most simple form of sentence is the finite verb: ἐσ-τί he-is, λέγο-μεν we-say, ἕπε-σθε you-follow.

Here the subject is in the personal ending, the predicate in the verbal stem. No other single word than a verb can of itself form a complete sentence.

expansion of the

§§922–924EXPANSION OF THE SIMPLE SENTENCE

summary of the forms of

§§2153–2158SUMMARY OF THE FORMS OF SIMPLE SENTENCES

in indirect discourse

§§2597–2600GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF INDIRECT DISCOURSE

§§2614–26161. Indicative and Optative after ὅτι or ὡς

Words

Part III: Formation of Words

Words containing a single stem are called simple words, as λόγο-ς speech; words containing two or more stems are called compound words, as λογο-γράφο-ς speech-writer.