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5.3.1. Main Clause : |
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Main Clause is one which is independent and can stand by
itself.
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Examples
1. mp -n
ótsì ts-chò
sì
  kh 
w-chò
he-nom rice eat-past and river
go-past
He ate rice and went to river
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2.
-n
kákò mhm
móts à
kh-chò
slò
ótsì ts-chò
I-nom book good a read-past after rice-eat
past
I read a good book and ate rice after.
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In
sentence no.1 mpna
ótsì tschò
is the main clause. In sentence no. 2. n
kákò mhm
móts>à
khchò
is the main clause.
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1.3.2. Subordinate Clause : |
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Subordinate
clause is one which is not independent and cannot stand
by itself.
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Examples
-n
kth
ótsì ts-vn-chò
np-n
k
r-chò
I-nom when rice eat-past duration she-nom my house
come past.
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When
I was eating rice she came to my house. |
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In the above sentence ‘when I was eating rice i.e. ¡-n¡
kth
ótsì tsv¡nchò
is the subordinate clause which is dependent on the main
clause i.e. npn
kì
r-chò.
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5.4. Co-ordination :
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In
Lotha co-ordination is done by the co-ordinating conjunction
i.e. sì
or tn.
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Examples |
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mp-n
kákò c
kh-chò
sì
 pá-chò
he-nom book the read-past and sleep-past.
He read the book and slept.
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5.5. Sentence :
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Bloomfield1
defines a sentence as "an independent linguistic
form, not included by virtue of any grammatical construction
in any larger linguistic form".
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5.5.1.
Sentences can be classified into different types on two
grounds, |
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1.
According to their function 2. According to their structure.
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According
to the function, sentences can be classified into 1. Statements
2. Questions 3. Commands, such types have been dealt in
the section of Verb morphology (4.5.).
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According
to the structure, sentences can be classified as follows
:
1. Simple 2. Complex 3. Compound
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5.5.1.1. Simple sentence :
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A simple
sentence is one which has only one subject and one predicate.
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Examples
1. mp-n
ótsì ts-là
He eats rice
he-nom rice eat-pres
2. n-n
np
hà-là
You see her
you-nom her see-pres.
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5.5.1.2. Complex sentence
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A
complex sentence consists of one main clause and one or
more subordinate clauses.
Examples
1. n-n
clò
vn-chò
khtlà
y
tvn-chò
you-nom there were but quite were
You were there but you kept quite.
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1. Bloomfied, L. Language, Delhi, Motilal Banarasi Das,
1963 First published in Great Britain in 1935, pp.170.
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