HERMENEUTICS

Andy's Quick Grammar Review

Questions to Ask Yourself!!

  • Who or what is the main subject of thought?
  • What action does the subject do?
  • Who or what is the object of the action?
  • How have the parts of the thought been modified by a word or a phrase?
  • What are the relationships among the various parts of the thought?
  • How does the key idea or thought relate to those before and after it?


Grammar Review

SUBJECTS

Noun - person, place or thing (masculine, feminine, neuter)

Pronoun - take the place of nouns in a sentence: he, she, it, this, that, you, we, they

Phrase standing in place of a noun.


VERBS

Verb - action word

Tense - Present, past (aorist, perfect, imperfect), future

Voice - Active, Middle or Passive

Mood - Indicative or Subjunctive

Imperative Command


OBJECTS

Object - what receives the action (directly or indirectly) from the subject.

Direct Object (singular or plural?)

Indirect Object (singular or plural?)


MODIFIERS

Adjectives - modifiers of nouns

Adverbs - modifiers of verbs


PREPOSITIONS

Stand before nouns/pronouns showing a relationship of that noun/pronoun to some action or state, or some other word in the sentence

Direction: up, from, through,out of, into, unto, to, up to, along, down, upon, throughout, beyond, to the side of, from, around, about, toward

Relation: in, by, in exchange for, for, besides, as, for, against, in respect to, after, in the time of, according to, with reference to, after, contrary to, in behalf of, concerning, about, pertaining to, instead of, on behalf of

Position: on , in, at, among, within, upon, by, before, over, down, from, beside, over, under, above, next to

Agency: by, in

Means: through, by means of, with

Cause: because of, on account of

Association: with

Purpose: for the sake of, for the purpose of,  for


CONJUNCTIONS OR CONNECTIVES

Joins sentences, clauses, phrases, words together (coordinate, subordinate or adversative)

Continuative: and, either/or, or, neither, neither/nor, nor

Causal: because, for, for this reason, since

Purpose: for this very purpose, in order that, so as....., so that, that

Comparison: as, as...so, as though, as to, in as much as, how, just as, just as...so, than

Time: as long as, since, unitl, when, whenever, while

Conditional: if

Emphatic: how, indeed, Oh

Adversative: but, but on the other hand, except, however, indeed, much more, nevertheless, not only...but, also, on the contrary, on the one hand...on the other hand, otherwise, rather, yet

Inference: even so, so, so then, then

Result: so that

Explanatory: for example, in fact, now, that is

Place: so far as, where, wherever

Concession: although, even though, though

Noun Clauses: how, that, what, whatever, which