When you come to ParseWorks, the appropriate chapter is loaded and ready to go. If you want to work on a different chapter, then select the chapter from the drop down menu and click the button.
[Previous word] and [Next word] walk you through the different inflected forms.
[Text hint] shows the inflected word broken into morphemes. Click the button again to remove the hint. Not every word has one; the button is greyed out when there is none.
[Audio hint] displays a small play bar in the middle of the window. These are the types of helps I give my traditional students when they are stuck. Click the button again to remove the hint. As with the text hint, the button is greyed out for a word with no recording.
[Confirm] sees if your answer is correct. As far as lexical forms are concerned, ParseWorks first checks your entry including breathing and accents. If that is not correct, it checks your entry against the answer without accents. Breathings are essential. ἀκουω will not register as the same as ακουω.
If you cannot type in Greek at all, you may type the letters you would press on a Greek keyboard instead — click (help) beside the lexical form for the list. Either way, when your entry is accepted but not spelled letter for letter, ParseWorks shows you the accented form afterwards.
The gloss never decides whether an answer is right — the lexical form and the parsing do. It is compared all the same, loosely enough that “I look” passes for “I am looking”, and if it reads as a different meaning I show you mine. English says a thing many ways, so treat that as a comparison rather than a correction.
[I give up] shows the correct answer. Please do not use this unless you have tried hard to figure the answer out on your own.
Lexical Form Entry
Type the lexical (dictionary) form of the word. ParseWorks will first check your entry including breathings and accents.
If that is not correct, it checks against the answer without accents. However, breathings are essential — ἀκουω will not register as the same as ακουω.
If you cannot type in Greek, type the letters you would press on a Greek keyboard — jakouw for ἀκούω. Most are the obvious ones; these are not:
h
η
agaphἀγάπη
w
ω
logosλόγος
q
θ
qeosθεός
x
ξ
jexousiaἐξουσία
c
χ
cristosΧριστός
y
ψ
yuchψυχή
J
rough breathing
Jwraὥρα
j
smooth breathing
jagaphἀγάπη
The breathing still matters, as it does when typing Greek: a capital J for rough, a small j for smooth. Accents are not typed at all, and s serves for sigma wherever it falls.
Whenever your entry is accepted but not spelled letter for letter — because you left the accents off, or typed keyboard letters — ParseWorks shows you the accented form afterwards, so you see what the word looks like written out. It still counts as correct.