Correlatives Drill

Here some “beginning Greek” drills to review correlatives. 

 

 

 

Drill on Correlatives/Answer Key

 

1. • 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.
2. • 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.
3. • 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!
4. • 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.
5. • Where did the strangerscome from?
   • She asked where the strangers came from.
   • These strangers have come from somewhere.
6. • 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.
7. • 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)
8. • How did he die?
   • He died somehow.
   • We asked how he died.