‘while
you are in the class don’t look through the window’
4.6.3
Compound
Sentences containing an Embedded Clause
4.6.3.1
Hmar
also manifests a kind of complex sentences where
one sentence (=a clause, to be very precise) is
inset into another sentence (+the main clause,
to be very precise). The main clause is known
as the matrix clause and the inset clause is known
as the embedded clause. The length of the clause
is not important here. The matrix clause could
be as small as two words, i.e. the subject noun
or pronoun could be verb and the embedded clause
could be as large as any simple sentence of possible
length. The embedded clause may represent either
direct speech or an indirect speech. Hmar does
not maintains distinction between direct speech
and indirect speech except the person of the subject
pronoun in the embedded clause is * from 2nd person
to 3rd person or 1st person as the case may be
in respect of written discourse the use of quote
marks distinguish * direct speech from the indirect
one; in speech, of course, this distinction is
lost.
4.6.3.2
Given
below are few pairs of sentences which exemplify
the compound sentences containing ‘direct’ and
‘indirect’ embedded clauses.
h/
tì à hríet n
m
kán ìnbà:n/ 
