Here some “beginning Greek” drills to review correlatives.
Drill on Correlatives/Answer Key
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- Who does shameful things?
- Do not ask/be asking who does shameful things.
- Whoever does shameful things, this one we do not honor.
- Whoever does shameful things, this one we do not honor. (present general conditional sentence)
- Whoever does shameful things, this man we do not honor. (present general conditional sentence with protasis introduced by simple rather than indefinite relative)
- We are asking/let us ask who is saving/preserving the city.
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- What sort of epic verses did she write?
- We want to learn what sort of epic verses she wrote.
- What sort of epic verses she wrote!
- Whatever sort of epic verses she writes, this/that sort we shall hear.
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- How many animals did you sacrifice?
- I am asking/let me ask how many animals you sacrificed.
- I asked how many animals you sacrificed.
- However many animals you found, so many we sacrificed. (past general conditional sentence)
- As many animals as you find, so many we will sacrifice.
- How many animals they sacrificed!
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- Which man becomes hostile to the people?
- Gorgias asked which man became/was becoming hostile to the people.
- Whichever one [of two] does good things, this one becomes a friend to me.
- Whichever one [of two] does good things, this one becomes a friend to me. (present general conditional sentence)
- Whichever one [of two] does bad things, that one I shall not choose general.
- Whichever one [of two] does bad things, that one I shall not choose general. (future more vivid conditional sentence)
- One [of two] does good things, the other does bad things.
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- Where did the strangerscome from?
- She asked where the strangers came from.
- These strangers have come from somewhere.
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- Where [i.e., to where] are the soldiers marching?
- The soldiers are marching [to] somewhere.
- The general is asking where the soldiers are marching.
- The general was asking where the soldiers were marching.
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- When did Gorgias come to the city of the Athenians?
- Gorgias left his own city at some time.
- The young men were asking when Gorgias came to the city of the Athenians. (Note the retained indicative in an indirect question in secondary sequence.)
- When(ever) Gorgias recited novel speeches/words, then the young men listened to him. (past definite temporal clause)
- When(ever) Gorgias recites novel speeches/words, then the young men listen to him. (present general temporal clause)
- When(ever) Gorgias recited novel speeches/words, then the young men listened to him. (past general temporal clause)
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- How did he die?
- He died somehow.
- We asked how he died.