tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 09 16:17:11 1996
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Purpose clause
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Purpose clause
- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 96 22:21:05 UT
December 08, 1996 10:10 PM, jatlh jejQIb:
> Long way of saying I don't understand how you came up with your
> second sentence: {vImughmeH jIQubqangbe'}.
> Strictly speaking, this use of {Qub} doesn't fall under the
> requisites for {-'e'}, and {-net} isn't usefull either. It is
> not {neH}, nor a verb of saying, so is it at _all_ possible to
> join them into one sentence?
vImughmeH jIQubqangbe'.
I was not willing to think in order to translate it.
This is a purpose clause, section 6.2.4. This is not any form of
sentence-as-object.
I'm not sure of your difficulty. Does this answer your question?
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SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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