What is a Nominative "case ending or marker"?
I think I know but someone needs to tell me for sure what it means.
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Sam,
Greek is an inflected language. That means that one can tell the subject, direct object, indirect object in a sentence not by word order (as in English generally subject, verb, object) but by ending. The Nominative ending tell you that this word is the subject of the clause or phrase no matter where it occurs in the sentence.
It may help you to think about something from my book. Yoda speaks English as if it were an inflected language. That is the word order is "out of whack" and it is difficult to understand him at times. If Yoda were speaking Greek or Latin the issue would be moot because the word order does not tell the reader the use (i.e. subject, object, etc.) but the ending on the noun has that information.
I hope this helps
Sam Lamerson
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Thanks DR Lamerson
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