Download AO Grammar Book --Select Grammar Book-- ABUJHMARIA Grammar ANGAMI Grammar AO Grammar APATANI Grammar BHUMIJ Grammar BROKSKAT GOJRI Grammar HMAR Grammar KARBI Grammar KOKBOROK Grammar KUVI Grammar LOTHA Grammar MAO NAGA Grammar MISHMI Grammar MISING Grammar MUNDARI Grammar NAGA PIDGIN Grammar PURKI Grammar SEMA Grammar Theory of Binding Grammar URALI Grammar A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA   7.4.2.      A complex sentence is a construction which consists of more than one sentence of which one is a main clause and the others are subordinate clauses. The subordinate clause is a construction whose predicate is followed or preceded by a subordinator like /a/ ‘if’ and /kuta/ ‘when’. /a/ follows the predicate and /kuta/ precedes it.        pá kuta au                                      ‘when he came’        he when came        pá mesiteta                                      ‘if he does not know’        he not know if        lá au a                                         ‘if she comes’        she come if        ní  pá  aóa                                     ‘if I find him’         I  him  find   if        ní  kuta  au  pá  za  liyas                     ‘when I came he was reading’        I   when     came he reading was        panok  mau   a pá  awó-c            ‘if they do not come he will go’        they        not come   if he go will         ní  kuta   pá  ataya   liyas                ‘when I was awaiting for him’          I  when  him waiting  was        kuta   clu   au                            ‘when rain came’        when    rain     came 7.4.3.      A compound sentence is a construction which consists of more than one sentence, all of which are main clauses. The main clauses may be simple or complex. The sentences are conjoined by adding the conjuctive particle /ase/ before the last sentence when conjoined. When the conjoined sentences are identicle and except for the verb after the identical elements are dropped we get sequence of verbs. The verbs conjoined indicate chronological order of events. amenlá   k  tempa  asé  lá  kohima  nu   aliye    ‘Amenla is my friend and she lives in Kohima’ Amenla   my  friend   and     she Kohima  in    lives              yaden    k  tempa   asé   pá  teseyo  ká  liye   ‘Yaden is my friend and he is a teacher: yaden    my  friend    and      he teacher      a    is               pá      kí-tai   awó    asé    pá     memica           ‘he went home and he did not sleep’ he      house to went  and        he  not sleep                         pá     amen     asé    asi                                               ‘he sat and spoke’ he      sat       and      spoke       Previous Next Top   AO Grammar Index Page   FeedBack | Contact Us | Home