After preparing an index for Greek Ollendorff, I have prepared a key. I ask for everybody’s help in correcting my mistakes, typos, etc.
A pdf of the whole key is available on Internet Archive. Please use that, rather then these present pages, which contain errors that have already been corrected.
In these posts, I link to the page of the pdf file of Greek Ollendorff where each exercise is located.
If you prefer to have a printed copy of Greek Ollendorff, I made for it also a paperback edition on Lulu, which contains some improvements.
An audio recording of all the exercises from the Greek is freely available at the Internet Archive. However, two pages are missing from that scan, while the scan on Google Books is complete.
6.I. p. 17
A house. - The house. - Houses. - Of the house. -
Houses. - The houses. - Of houses. - Of the houses. -
A shadow. - The shadow. - Of the shadow. - To the shadow. - Shadows.
The shadows. - Of shadows. - Of the shadows. - To shadows. -
A hearth. - The hearth. - Hearths. - To the hearth. - The
hearth. - Hearths. - Of the hearths. - A door. - The
door. - Of the door. - A door. - The doors. - To doors.
9.I. p. 18
A shadow. - The shadow. - The porch. - The porch of
the house. - The porches of the house. - A shadow of a door. -
A shadow of the door. - Shadows of the doors. - The shadows of
the doors. - To the shadows of the houses. - A door. -
The door. - The doors of the house. - Of the doors of
the house. - The hearth. - The hearth of the house. - To the hearths of
the houses. - Hearthes of houses. - The hearthes of
the houses.
12.I. p. 21
A house has a door. - Houses have doors. -
Have the houses doors? - They have not doors. -
The house has not doors. - Has not the house
a porch? - The house has not a porch. - The house has not
a porch. - Have not the houses shadows? - They
have not shadows. - The houses have not shadows. - The
porch of the house has a shadow. - A door of a house - The
doors of the house. - The hearths of the houses. - Have you
a ball? - I have not a ball. - Have you not
balls? - We have balls. - We have not the
balls.
What have you? - I have a ball. - What have we? -
You have balls. - Have we not houses? - You
have not houses. - Has the house doors? - Yes, it has
doors. - Has the house a porch? - No, the house has
not a porch. - What have you in the houses? - We have
hearthes in the houses. - Who has the ball? - I have the ball. - We have not the
ball. - The boy has balls. - Has not the door of
the house a shadow? - Yes, it has a shadow. - What has
the boy in the shadow of the house? - He has a ball.
The ball - My ball - Not the ball,
but the hammer. - Not the house, but the door. -
A hammer and a ball. - The hammers and the balls.
I and the boy. - Not I, but the boy. - What
has the boy? - He has my staff. - The boy
has hammers and balls. - The houses have
doors and porches. - Have not our houses
hearths? - Yes, they have hearths. - What has my
boy in the shadow of the door? - He has a staff. -
Whom have you? - We have you. - You have not me, but
my staff. - The boy has me in the door.
Who runs? - I run. - Not I, but
you run. - You, and not I run. - Do you
not run? - Yes, we run. - You run,
but not we. - I do not run, but the boy (runs). - You run in the porches. - The boy does not
run in the house, but in the porch. - We run
in the porches of the houses. - You and I. - Your
house. - Your boy has the staff. - Whom
has the boy? - He has you. - He has not you, but me. -
He has not us, but you. - He has not you, but
your shadow. - I run and you run. - We run and you run.
Where are you? - I am in the corner. - Is the boy
in the corner of the house? - He is not there, but he is
in the porch of the house. - Has the house a porch? - Our
houses have porches. - There is a door in
my house. - There are doors and hearths in our
houses. - Where are the balls? - The balls are
not here, but in the corner. - Are you not
in the shadow of the house? - We are not in
the shadow of the house, but the boy is there. - Has
the boy a ball? - He has not a ball, but
a staff. - He has balls and staves. - The boy,
has not a staff, but you (have it). - You
do not run, but we do. - I, but not you run.
Where is the boy? - He is running in the pasture. -
Where does the ox lie? - The ox lies in the corner
of the pasture. - The cows do not lie here, but in
the shadow of the house. - Where does the girl run? - The
girl runs in the porch. - Has the house a porch? -
It has. - Have not our houses porches? -
They have not. - The village - Of the village. - The
villages. - The houses of the village. - Where is your
house? - My house is in the village. - Where is
the spring? - The spring lies in the village. -
It does not lie in the village, but in the pasture. - The
cows lie in the corner of the pasture. - My
ball lies in the fountain.
A cloak. - My cloak. - Where do our
cloaks lie? - The cloaks lie in the porch.
Either they lie in the porch, or in the shadow of the door. -
Where are the thorns? - The thors are in the
corner of the pasture. - Have the pastures thorns? -
The pastures have neither thorns nor rocks. -
The roots of the thorns. - The thorns, or the roots.
Either the pastures or the rocks have thorns. -
The pasture have both thorns and rocks. -
Where does the cow lie? - She lies either in the gate, or
in the village. - The roots of the thorns are in the
rocks. - There is a rock in the gate. - There are seats in
the gates. - The houses have both porches and
seats. - Both porches, and seats. - Both roots, and
thorns.
In all those words accented in the penultimate syllable with a circumflex you add an acute accent
to the ultimate syllable when a monosyllable enclitic follows (Apologies for the most obtuse
way of explaining this rather simple rule, not unlike the explanation of my teacher
and study book which I struggled with in my university class):
Ἡ σφαῖρά μου. | -Τίς ἔχει τὴν σφαῖράν σου;
Indeed, you’re already familiar with this rule judging from your fourth answer:
Ὁ παῖς ἔχει τὴν σφαῖράν μου.
Who is in the village? - My father is
there. - My mother is not there, but here.
My mother is here, and not there. -
Where does my cloak lie? - Your cloak lies
on the seat. - Where do our balls
lie? - Either they lie on the rocks, or in the spring. -
Are there rocks in the pasture? - There are both rocks
and thorns there. - My father and mother are
in the gate. - Who runs? - Both the boy runs, and
the ox. - Both I and you run. - You do not run,
but we. - My father has neither hammers,
nor balls. - The girl neither runs in the
porch, nor in the shadow of the house, but on the
rocks.
The fig-tree? – The roots of the fig-tree. - Where are the
fig-trees? - The fig-trees are in the pasture. - Have the
pastures fig-trees? - The pastures have not fig-trees, but
thorns. - What has the pasture? - It has nothing except
fig-trees and rocks. - Who are sitting on the
rocks? - My father and mother are sitting
there. - Where is the maiden sitting? - She is sitting on the seat
in the porch. - What has she in her hand? - She has
nothing except her cloak. - Where is the fly sitting? - On my
head. - The boy has nothing on his head except
a fly. - When does the boy run? - Both now, and
always. - I have something in my hand.
45.I. p. 49
The young man. - The young men. - What has the young man?
He has a tongue. - The young men have tongues. -
The tongue of the young man. - The tongues of the young
men. - The young man has a tongue in the head. -
Where are the bees? - The bees are in the
pasture. - The boy has a bee in his hand. - Has not the
boy a bee on his head? - No, but the
maiden has a fly in her hand. - A bee sits
on the thorn. - I am falling. - Who is falling? - We
are falling. - The ball is falling from the seat. - The
cow is running out of the pasture. - The maidens are running
out of the porches. - We are sending. - Whom are you sending?
The father is sending the young man. - The mother is sending
the maiden out of the gate. - The bees always sit
here.
A thief. - The thief. - The head of the
thief. - What has the thief in his hand? - He has
your cloak. - The thieves have our
cloaks. - They have cloaks instead of staves. -
Whence are the thieves running? - They are running
from the house. - The young men are now running from the
villages. - A workman and an artisan. - The workman and
the artisan. - Not the workmen, but the artisans. -
Workmen instead of artisans. - What has the workman in his
hand? - He has a hammer instead of a ball. - The boy
is running home. - Where does my cloak lie? -
It lies near the spring. - Whence is your father
sending you? - He is sending me from home. - Not thence,
but hence. - Neither here, nor there. - Neither in
the village, nor in the pasture. - The bee neither sits
on the fig-tree, nor on the thorn.
Who has my cloak? - The thief has your
cloak. - What cloak has he? - He has
the cloak on the seat. - Where are the cows? -
What cows? - The cows in the pasture. - Not the
cows in the pasture, but those near the spring. - The
houses in the village. - Not the houses in the village, but those
near the fountain. - The gates of the houses. - The
gates of the houses in the village. - What fig-trees
have you? - We have the fig-tress in the corner of the
pasture. - We have those near the spring, not those
here. - Whence are you running? - We are running from home.
What have you in the chest? - In the chest I have the
cloak of the merchant. - You have not the cloak, but
the hat of the merchant. - What have we in the
garden? - You have fig-trees and thorns in the garden.
Are there not fountains in the gardens? - Yes, in the
gardens there are fountains. What have the merchants in
their hats? - They have nothing in their hats except
their heads. - Who sits on the horse? - The young
men sit on the horses. - Does the horse
run in the road? - It runs not in the road, but in the
pasture. - The horse runs into the road. - Whither do
the horses run? - They do not run hither, but into
the pasture that is near the village. - Not thither,
but hither. - Whither are you throwing your cloak?
I am throwing both my cloak and my hat into the
chest. - I throw the cloak instead of the staff.
Who has a rose? - The maiden has a rose. - The maidens
have both roses and violets. - There are roses in the
hand of the maiden. - The bee sits on the
roses. - The field has neither roses, nor violets. - Where
are the trees? - The trees are not in the garden,
but in the fields. - The apple-trees have
apples. - The apple-trees in the garden have apples. - Not
the apple-trees in the garden, but those near the fountain
have apples. - Not the violets, but the roses have
thorns. - Who has the books? - The teacher
has them. - The scholar no longer has the books.
What has he? - He has balls instead of books. - Who
sends the violets? - The maidens sends (them). - Who has
my hat? - Not the merchant, but the thief
has it.
