Download Kokborok Book --Select Grammar Book-- ABJUHMARIA 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 MISH Grammar MISING Grammar MUNDARI Grammar NAGA PIDGIN Grammar PURKI Grammar SEMA Grammar Theory of Binding Grammar URALI Grammar A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA   E  agaw  amay khary tg  ng thag ‘(They) are going to the room where the son-in-law had gone after the ran away. (literally: where the son-in-law had gone after he ran away to that room they are going) 4.3. The compound sentence : The sentences are conjoined coordinately either by using past participles or by using the conjunctive particle. The partaiciple is formed by adding y or khay to the verb. Examples : b may awy iskul thaka ‘He bathes and (then) cooks rice and vegetables.’ b tukuwy maymµy sg ‘He bathes and (then) cooks rice and vegetables.’ apha phaykay a phayanu ‘My father will come and then I will come.’ b aykhay mha yaku huw ‘It dawns and then he washes his face and legs.’ The conjunctive particle is tay when sentences are conjoined. But bay is used when the conjoined sentences are reduced by deleting the multiple occurence of the identical verb. b dibr albay tay sarig iskul thag ‘He ploughs in the afternoon and goes to school in the evening.’ raabay bihigbay bEraynani thaka ‘The king and his wife went for a walk.’ The contra-propositional conjunction (‘but’) of sentences is made with phiya or kintu. Examples : a samu paynani nakha kintu paymaliya ‘He is a good hunter but is afraid of the lizard.’ b hikaar-kuru phiya nbrayn kirijag ‘I tried to finish the work but could not.’     Previous Next top

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