Lesson 3 | Present Participles
Guided Practice: Mark 1:4
You have learned how present participles form and function, and seen several examples from the Greek NT. Now, it is time for you to practice.
Read the text aloud
Diagram and translate the text by using our five-step process
Clauses: Divide the text into clauses. (Only divide adverbial participles into their own clauses.)
Main Verb: Identify the main verb
Subject: Identify the verb’s subject
Object: Identify the verb’s object (or predicate nominative)
Extras: Identify and diagram the remaining parts
Watch the video to check your work.
As before, we colored and highlighted the verbs in each sentence. However, we have not colored or highlighted the present participles, though we do provide definitions of their lexical form in the Helps tab.
Side Note: Two Ways to Provide Helps for Verbs
In lesson 2 we mentioned two ways we can provide the definition for a verb (σῴζω – to save, heal; or σῴζω – I save, I heal). We will always use the inflected form in your vocabulary but now you will begin to see the uninflected form in some of our helps. When the verb in a passage occurs in a form that you do not know, we will provide the form as it occurs in context and an inflected definition in quotes:
When a verb you have not yet learned in your vocabulary occurs in a form that you should know, we will provide the lexical form and an uninflected definition (you will need to work out the proper translation):
(1) Read aloud. (2) Diagram & translate with the 5 Steps.
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