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Interesting that she doesn't devote a chapter to either the Pual or the hophal. Simply a paragraph in the piel and hiphil ch.

I like her discussion on the consecutive imperfect. I think it makes more sense to call it a consecutive preterite (as she does) rather than the norm (consecutive imperfect).

Second critique:

I don't like that she flips the paradigms to match other language grammars. Traditionally, Hebrew grammars list paradigms in this order: 3ms,3fs,2ms ,2fs, etc. but she flips it (1cs, 2ms ,2fs, 3ms, etc.). She's trying to match modern linguistic convention. However there is a reason we use the traditional method, and I think her method is not the best personally for learning biblical Hebrew .