Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: Springfield Reformer
Sorry, now you’re just making stuff up (though I am willing to believe your motives are pure). Eimi is indicative, not passive:

In this, you are both wrong. the word ειμι is Present tense, Active Voice, Indicative mood, and first person singular. verga is wrong in that voice is active, not passive; and you are confusing voice with mood.

258 posted on 08/07/2013 1:15:22 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 148 | View Replies ]


To: imardmd1; verga

Well, my response was less than perfectly structured, but I checked a conjugation chart before posting, and eimi is indicative, which as you say is a mood, but who cares, because the real question was active versus passive, so why would I put it that way, apples and oranges. Totally confusing. My bad.

BTW, please give me your opnion on the how the copulative nature of this verb affects voice. The article I referenced in the post to which you are responding suggests that at least some grammarians do not even make the active/passive distinction here, because as a copulative the verb describes a link between subject and predicate, and not an action per se. I am inclined to agree with this assessment, which is why posted it after noting that the voice was not passive.

And again, I was too hasty and hence unclear in how I structured my earlier post. Misunderstanding was inevitable. My apologies.

Peace,

SR


259 posted on 08/07/2013 1:49:35 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 258 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson