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2. The following sentences are truncated passive sentences and they are slightly different from the regular passive sentences, in the sense that the agent is absent.

8.	soma	sabais - len - a
	Soma	praise - pp-cop

‘Soma was praised’

9.	gomi	t^hl - len - a
	Gomy	arrest-pp-cop

‘Gomy was arrested’

The constituents of the above sentences namely Soma and Gomi look like the deep structure subjects. Actually, they are not, but subjects of the surface structure. This may be seen in the tree diagram

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10.

gomi

lel-ked-a

‘Gomy saw’

11.

suni

jom-ked-a

‘Suny ate’

Though, the subjects of the above sentences look like surface subjects, they are the deep structure subjects. This may be seen in the tree diagram

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4. Generally, subject precedes both direct and indirect objects as shown below.

12.

giria

mulia-ke

guai

oma-k-i-a

‘The master gave the wages to the servant’

13.	gomi	datruma	omi-ke	oma-l-i-a
	Gomy	sickle	Domy-case	give-past

‘Gomy gave the sickle to Domy’

The constituents of the above sentences namely giria and gomi are the subjects and they precede both the direct and indirect objects. In the first sentence the subject precedes mulia the indirect object;, in the second sentence, the subject precedes datruma ‘sickle’, the direct object.

In Bhumij, generally, the direct object precedes indirect object. Sometimes,the indirect object also precedes the direct object as shown above.

6.7.

The imperative sentences:

1. An imperative sentence is used to give command, advice or request. There is no marker for imperative. The subject of the imperative sentence isthe second person pronoun which is not present in the surface sentence. However, the subject

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