GreekComp:SidgwickFirstGreekWriter

[Rindu]

Hello! I just started using Sidgwick’s 1st Greek writer, and I noticed something while checking the first exercise.

I tended to place genitives, e.g., “the shade of the trees,” between the article and the noun. (the of the trees shade). But in the answer key, Sidwick writes nomitive article-noun-gen.art.-gen.noun. Is my solution incorrect or just different?

Thanks

[annis]

@Rindu

I tended to place genitives, e.g., “the shade of the trees,” between the article and the noun. (the of the trees shade). But in the answer key, Sidwick writes nomitive article-noun-gen.art.-gen.noun. Is my solution incorrect or just different?

Just different.

[xar]

standard order is article-noun-genitive. Genitive between the article and the noun is kind of styllistically marked, but it was very commonly used (esp by Thucidides). So -as Annis has posted- you could say it is just another syntactical pattern -it can be used in the same way.