Lesson 4 | Types of Offline Clauses
Review
You made it through our discussion of the clauses used in Hebrew narrative! Well done.
What we learned this lesson
Here’s what we learned this lesson about offline clauses:
- Types of Offline Clauses
- Asyndeton
- Verb
- Noun
- Non-prefix connecting word
- Conjunction
- Relative pronoun
- ל + Infinitive
- Vav (plus anything except sequential-imperfect)
- Verb
- Interjection
- Adverb
- Negative adverb before a verb
- Personal pronoun
- Noun
- Indenting Offline Clauses
- Offline clauses that begin with a vav will typically indicate the continuation of a subordinate block whereas other offline clauses usually begin a new subordinate thought.
- Extract intervening verbal clause to be on their own line
- Labelling Offline Clauses
- Background
- Supplemental
- Direct/Indirect Speech
- Dramatic
- Negated
