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Conlangery #88: Ancient Greek (natlang)

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Participles in Greek Prose

In Greek, participles are just adjectives that are acting like verbs. They exist in all of the aspects and most of the tenses. If you see a piece of Greek that does not have a participle, it is not real Greek. A non-configurational language has more freedom with word order than poetry or prose. It can often take phrases apart to spread them throughout the sentence.

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