tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Sep 07 17:48:45 1997

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Re: Return to school



At 04:12 PM 9/7/97 -0700, peHruS wrote:

>Qov stated that all verbs other than {neH} require a sentence-as-object
>construction.  This is not accurate.  Verbs of speaking act as does {neH}, in
>directly conjoined phrases.  All other verbs take the sentence-as-obejct
>construction.

I wrote:
Qov> For all verbs except {neH}, if you want to make something expressed by
Qov> another verb the object of the sentence, you need the sentence as object
Qov> construction.

My statement was accurate.  Yours is not. The object of a verb of speaking
is not the sentence spoken. {neH} and verbs of speaking may be, as you put
it, "directly conjoined."  So may {rIntaH}.

chotlhoch DaneHchugh mu'meyna'wIj tItlhoch 'ej yIqar SoH.  pItlh.

Qov  ([email protected])
Beginners' Grammarian



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