I'll make this as quick as possible. First, though, I will say that my iPod keyboard doesn't include breathing marks or the circumflex mark. I will edit the appropriate diacritics into the post when I get to my laptop.
1. The book I am using starts off using only genitive pronouns for possession, like ο πατήρ μου. The author wrote that when emphasis was needed, the full, non-enclitic form is used, as in ο πατηρ εμου. Now, however, he is introducing the possessive pronouns and saying that they should *always* be used when emphatic. What is the difference between the usage of the three forms?
2. I understand that enclitics throw their accent back upon the preceding word under conditions that are mutually understood and not worth mentioning. However, I don't understand why it is represented in writing with both the original accent and the new accent, as "έχουσί τι". Are both accents pronounced? The author of the book didn't care to go into this, since his position was that the diacritics should be ignored and everything should be pronounced as if it were English >_>
3. How frequent is the dual number? Can it be replaced in any case with the plural? Also, can the dual form of εγώ, νώ, be used with the plural form in the indicative mood?
4. My book does not deal specifically with Attic, but it includes Attic forms. However, it makes some things vague - in Attic, is the second declension -ος completely and entirely replaced with -ως?
I had more questions, but, lucky for you, they have slipped my mind.
1. The book I am using starts off using only genitive pronouns for possession, like ο πατήρ μου. The author wrote that when emphasis was needed, the full, non-enclitic form is used, as in ο πατηρ εμου. Now, however, he is introducing the possessive pronouns and saying that they should *always* be used when emphatic. What is the difference between the usage of the three forms?
2. I understand that enclitics throw their accent back upon the preceding word under conditions that are mutually understood and not worth mentioning. However, I don't understand why it is represented in writing with both the original accent and the new accent, as "έχουσί τι". Are both accents pronounced? The author of the book didn't care to go into this, since his position was that the diacritics should be ignored and everything should be pronounced as if it were English >_>
3. How frequent is the dual number? Can it be replaced in any case with the plural? Also, can the dual form of εγώ, νώ, be used with the plural form in the indicative mood?
4. My book does not deal specifically with Attic, but it includes Attic forms. However, it makes some things vague - in Attic, is the second declension -ος completely and entirely replaced with -ως?
I had more questions, but, lucky for you, they have slipped my mind.