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You
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all
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having
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joined
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beat
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him’
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1
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2 |
4 |
3 |
7-8 |
5-6 |
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k r
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ja
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g€
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mU
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a
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1
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2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
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Having
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gone
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home
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come
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back’
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3
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2 |
1 |
5 |
4 |
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|
wo
|
ro i
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kha
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g€
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pa i
|
pi
|
gє
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Ittũ
|
geyo
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| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
7 |
8 |
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| |
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‘He
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having
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eaten
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food,
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drunk |
water |
from |
here’ |
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1
|
4 |
3 |
2 |
6 |
5 |
8 |
7 |
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Infinitive clause embedded
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Infinitive clauses are embedded into the matrix sentence to form the
complex sentence and these clauses are nominalized which function as noun
phrase subject or object in the sentences.
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Example are:
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Un
|
n€
|
mewo
|
khao |
p snd |
kIyo |
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
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‘He liked to eat fruit (fruit eating)
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(The above sentence has the transitive verb occurring in the perfective
participle form which always has to agree with the object and the subject
takes /nє/
postpositions as /Us nє/.
Thus /mewo kha o/
is the noun phrase functioning as object showing the gender-number agreement
with the verb)
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hũ
|
pai
|
ma
|
tr
|
na
|
psnd
|
krũ
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|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
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|
|
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‘I
|
like
|
to
|
swim
|
in
|
the
|
water’
|
| 1 |
7-8 |
|
4 |
3 |
|
2 |
|
|
|
| mewo
|
khao |
cngo |
|
|
‘Eating
|
fruit
|
is
|
good’
|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
2 |
1 |
4 |
3 |
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|
Besides infinitive functioning as noun clause can also function as
adverb clause in the complex sentence depending on its occurrence with the
postpositions. This adverb clause can occur in the beginning of the
sentence preceding the verb phrase and also after the subject of the
complex sentence. Examples area:
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mera
|
a
|
toi
|
tũ
|
na
|
jaIye
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
|
|
|
|
‘You (please)
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don’t
|
go
|
till
|
I
|
come’
|
|
4
|
5 |
6 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
cori
|
kr
|
dũ
|
wo |
q€d |
ho |
geyo |
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
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|
|
|
‘He
|
was
|
made
|
a
|
prisoner
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for
|
stealing’
|
| 4 |
|
6-7 |
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5 |
3 |
1-2 |
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|
|
wo
|
Us
|
g€
|
ja
|
dũ
|
pIcch€
|
Uo
|
khy€go
|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
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|
|
|
‘He
|
will
|
eat
|
bread
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after
|
his
|
going’
|
|
1
|
|
8 |
7 |
6 |
2-3 |
4 |
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Dubitative constructions
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This is a peculiar complex sentence in which both the clauses occur
with contingent form marking the subjective mood and the subordinate
clause functioning as adverb clause is always /ho sk€-/
‘If possible’ precedes the main clause and the whole sentence gives
the meaning of nondefiniteness or doubt. Examples are :
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ho sk€
hũa jaũ
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‘If possible I may come’
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ho sk€
wo
uo
khy€
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|
‘If possible he may eat
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bread’
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