First an excerpt, shall we? "The subjunctive mood presents the action of the verb as probable. It expresses an action viewed as potential. Translate with auxiliaries may, might, or should." Next lesson, "Prohibitory subjunctive: The aorist subjunctive with μη prohibits an action and should be translated as a simple command." How can it be a command and be subjunctive? Oxymoronic? Maybe.
Greek also has emphatic negation. Double negatives don't cancel each other out, they increase the negation. However, since we can't use two negatives in English, we translate double negatives in Greek as increased negatives in English. Auxiliaries: never, not at all, by no means.
Indefinite Relative Clauses and....yea.
In other news, eating peanut butter from the jar helps with the confusion.
-Sam
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Just don't eat pb and crackers from the store until they find the salmonella strain - don't want you getting sick while you're knee deep in Greek. :)
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Ah, Greek IB. Lovely semester. :)
We feel your pain :)
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