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GENDER, CASE, NUMBER
GENDER: Masculine, Feminine, and Neuter.
Words with the same gender could modify each other. Masculine words do not modify feminine word or neuter words. They must agree.
CASE: Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Vocative.
Words with the same case are nouns and pronouns that could be associated with each other if their number agrees. This called “words that are in agreement”.
NUMBER IN NOUNS, PRONOUNS, PARTICIPLES: Singular, Plural;
VERBS: person: first, second, third; singular or plural.
When studying the New Testament using the Greek Text you want to compare word with the same gender, case, number.
For parsed verses: http://www.gracebiblechurch.us/bible.html
Greek Grammar: http://www.gracebiblechurch.us/grammar.pdf 
When studying the Bible grammar should be used to determine what word should be associated with each other. Verbs tell us when the action takes place and whether action is an even or continuing event.
In this study I want us to be aware of the parsing of words. This will help us to associate words and phrases that go with each other. We will be using gender, case, and number along with the tense of verbs.
Nouns, pronouns, and participle have gender as well as case. The nominative case is the subject of the sentence. The Genitive, Dative cases are prepositional phrases. The accusative case is used as a direct object in the English language.
Verbs have person number voice and mode. The person points to the one doing the action or receiving the action of the verb. The number indicates how many. The mode indicate the level of certainty to action of the verb will take place.
If you do not have Bible software to look up the parsing of words on the Internet, at this link. You can get a Very Short Grammar at the link on this screen.