Grammar Practice for Ancient Greek

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Introduction

In 2011, I wrote a number of verb tests for Ancient Greek on another website using Adobe Flash. However, since browser support for Flash stopped at the end of 2020, I re-wrote these quizzes in JavaScript here.

Guide to the Grammar Quizzes

Desktop Instructions

Upon opening a quiz, the first screen will appear. The double-column layout will show:

  1. The title of the page (top)
  2. A yellow grammar review button (left column)
  3. Some explanatory text regarding the grammar (right column)
Opening desktop screen for Ancient Greek verb quiz

Clicking the yellow / orange grammar review button will open / close a grammar review table:

Grammar review table opened on desktop for Ancient Greek verb quiz

To begin the quiz, scroll down a little and click on the green NEXT button:

Green NEXT button displayed on desktop for Ancient Greek verb quiz

The first question will display a randomly-generated Ancient Greek verb, followed by possible translations.

Note that the generated verb will not show tone accentation (with the exception of the Irregular Verbs quiz).

Quiz question displayed on desktop for Ancient Greek verb quiz

Clicking on the Ancient Greek verb toggles the upper and lower cases.

Quiz question with uppercase verb displayed on desktop for Ancient Greek verb quiz

Hovering over an answer will highlight it.

Quiz answer highlighted light blue on desktop for Ancient Greek verb quiz

Once an answer is clicked, the quiz will inform the user whether the answer is right or wrong, and update the test-taker's score.

Question graded correct on desktop for Ancient Greek verb quiz

Finally, clicking the green NEXT button will display the next question.

(Privacy Note: None of your answers are recorded in a database anywhere.)

Mobile Instructions

Upon opening a quiz, the first screen will appear. This single-column layout will show:

  1. The title of the page
  2. Some explanatory text regarding the grammar
Opening mobile screen for Ancient Greek verb quiz

Scroll down a little to see the following:

  1. Radio buttons to ENABLE ANIMATION
  2. A green NEXT button
  3. A yellow grammar review button
ENABLE ANIMATION radio buttons, green NEXT button, yellow grammar review button displayed on mobile screen for Ancient Greek verb quiz

If you have a limited data plan for your cell phone, click the NO option for ENABLE ANIMATION.

(Conversely, if you have a large or unlimited data plan, you may wish to click YES.)

Below the ENABLE ANIMATION box is the green NEXT button. Clicking this will begin the test, but before doing this, let's look at the yellow grammar review button.

Underneath all of these is a yellow grammar review button. Clicking it will open a grammar review table beneath it. (Scroll down a bit to view the table in its entirety.)

Yellow grammar review button with grammar review table displayed below it on mobile screen for Ancient Greek verb quiz

Now hit the yellow or orange grammar review button again to close the table, and tap the green NEXT button. The grammar quiz will begin by displaying a question with a randomly-generated Ancient Greek verb, followed by possible translations.

Note that the generated verb will not show tone accentation (with the exception of the Irregular Verbs quiz).

Quiz question displayed on mobile for Ancient Greek verb quiz

Clicking the randomly-generated Ancient Greek verb will toggle its display between lower and upper cases:

Quiz question with uppercase verb displayed on mobile for Ancient Greek verb quiz

Look over the multiple choice answers and tap the best translation for the generated verb:

Quiz answer highlighted light blue on mobile for Ancient Greek verb quiz

The quiz will inform the user as to the correctness of his answer, as well as keep a running tally of the score:

Question graded correct on mobile for Ancient Greek verb quiz

Finally, click the green NEXT button to generate a new question.

(Privacy Note: None of your answers are recorded in a database anywhere.)

Updates

OPEN / CLOSE List of Updates

UPDATE (): Social media Like / Share buttons added to this page.

UPDATE (): PayPal Tip Jar was added to most verb pages on September 2nd and 3rd, and to the Irregular Verb test page on September 9th.

UPDATE (): Styles for the test pages have been re-written to give them a three-column layout on desktop. This centers the middle column above the copyright area.

UPDATE (): Link for Irregular Verb test has been completed & added to this page.

The code had to be significantly overhauled for this page to work properly.

UPDATE (): Link for Second Aorist Active Indicative Verb test has been completed & added to this page.

UPDATE (): Link for Imperfect Active Indicative Verb test has been completed & added to this page.

Programming-wise, this test was a little tricky because the answers for 1st Person Singular (I) & 3rd Person Plural (They) are the same. So for these questions, the code had to take into account that there were two possible answers instead of one.

UPDATE (): Link for Second Aorist Middle Indicative Verb test has been completed & added to this page.

UPDATE (): Link for Imperfect Middle Indicative Verb test has been completed & added to this page.

UPDATE (): Link for First Aorist Middle Imperative Verb Endings test has been completed & added to this page.

UPDATE (): Link for First Aorist Active Imperative Verb Endings test has been completed & added to this page.

UPDATE (): Link for Present Middle Imperative verb test has been completed & added to this page.

UPDATE (): Link for Present Active Imperative verb test has been completed & added to this page.

UPDATE (): Link for First Aorist Middle Indicative verb test has been completed & added to this page.

UPDATE (): Link for First Aorist Active Indicative verb test has been completed & added to this page.

UPDATE (): A <meter> tag has been added to this page to keep track of progress in converting pages from Flash to JavaScript.

More importantly, the language attributes for Ancient Greek (lang="grc" & xml:lang="grc") are slowly being added where neccessary on the completed JavaScript pages.

UPDATE (): Divs on this webpage have been replaced with semantic HTML5 tags (ie: <header>, <nav>, <main>, <article>, <section>, <aside> and <footer> tags).

In addition, subheadings have been added, and some hoplite icons have been replaced.

UPDATE (): Link for Present Middle Optative verb test has been completed & added to this page.

UPDATE (): Link for Present Active Optative verb test has been completed & added to this page. Google Chrome users may have to reload this page (by hitting F5) in order to remove the blue background color on the minotaur link and to activate the link to the test.

Broken links to the homepage have been fixed as well.

UPDATE (): Link for Future Middle Indicative verb test has been fixed. (Was erroneously linked to the Present Middle Indicative page.)

UPDATE (): The code in the self-tests has been changed to help ensure that duplicate questions will not be asked.

(However, incorrectly-answered questions can be repeated, and test questions can be asked again once the pool of questions has been exhausted.)

Operational JavaScript Tests

OPEN / CLOSE List of Working Tests

Number of JavaScript tests completed:
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