Greek Clauses
Adjectival Clauses
A relative clause is used to directly limit or define a noun, performing a pure adjectival function.
Causal Clauses
The relative clause may denote grounds for the assertion in the main clause.
Concessive Clauses
A relative clause may imply the idea of concession.
Simple Condition
The relative clause may supply the protasis of a simple condition.
Purpose Clauses
The relative clause may express purpose.
Subjunctive
More Probable Condition
The protasis of a more probable future condition may be expressed by the use of the relative pronoun with a!n.
Voluntative Result
A relative clause may express a result that the context shows was intended or contemplated.
Coordinate Causal Clause
The inferential particle γάρ is the regular connective for two coordinate clauses that bear to each other some relation of cause and effect, or reason and conclusion.
Subordinate Causal Clauses
By a Subordinating Conjunction
The Particles used: ὅτι, διότι, καθότι, ἐπεί, ἐπειδή, ὅθεν
The Phrases used: ἐφ’ ῳ, ἐφ’ ὅσον, ἀνθ’ ὧν, οὗ χάριν
By διά with the Articular Infinitive
By the Participle
By the relative pronoun
The Particles Used
Those used most are ὠς and καθώς
Compounds of κατά
Compounds of ὠς
The Correlative pronoun ὄσος
The Comparative Particle ἤ
The use of the phrase ὅν τρόπον
The Particles Used
By ὅπου
By οὗ
By ὅθεν