| 1.4.1.1.
Simple Sentence : A sentence consisting of one and only one independent
clause is a simple sentence. A simple statement-type active affirmative
sentence is the example of a simple sentence. All tranformations of
such a sentence, which do not require embedding, are also simple sentences.
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Statement
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Questions
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Command
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Intr -
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bi g d
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bļgd-n
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g-t
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he goes
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does he go
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go
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Tr -
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I bread eat do
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I bread eat
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bread eat
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| In this way, we get
3x2 = 6 types of simple sentences, each in turn, with negative and
interrogative negative sentences along with tense differentiation.
Thus the whole matrix stands to 54 types of simple sentences. Here
we can add the sentences of copulative clause of 3x3x3=27 types, leading
the total number to 54+27=81. |
| 1.4.1.2.
Compound sentence : The sentences which have more than one independent
clause are compound sentences. The two independent clauses are conjoined
by connectors. |
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base
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+
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____C______
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+
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base 2
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i cl1
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{na
}
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i cl2
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{la
}
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{bįml
}
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lekkl
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sibek
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duai
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na
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duai
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once
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monkey
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one was
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and
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crocodile
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one was
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| Once,
there was a monkey and there was a crocodile |
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bim
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g kt
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la
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neyadėm
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nįpąkt
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him
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call
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and
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grass
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remove
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| Call him
and remove the grass. |
| Simple
one-word imperative can combine with a statement type of sentence
without a connector. |
dśt
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nm
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apinėm
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bi-du
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sit
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I
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you
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food
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give t
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| Sit, I
am giving you food. |
| 1.4.1.3.
Complex sentence : A complex sentence contains one independent clause
and at least one dependent clause. In a complex sentence, the subordinate
clause invariably precedes the principal clause, except where free
relators occur. The subordinate clause serves as a realtor clause.
An overt realtor may not be used. |
| Subordinate
clauses may be either adjectival, adverbial or conditional. |
| (1)
Complex sentence with adjectival clause : |
| Adjectival
clauses either have participial form of the verb or the verb takes
the adjective derivative element /nė/ |
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bulu-kke
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mė-namė
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b-dk
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they poss
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thinking
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go+t
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| lit.
"their thinking, he went" |
| They
think that he went. |
g ya-nė
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amidė
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sékn
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goer
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man
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where int.
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| Where
is the man who (was) going? |
| (2)
Complex sentence with sub-ordinate adverbial clause : |
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bļ
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ayanė
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amik
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d ila
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bim
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yimapė
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mėdag
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he
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had
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man
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so
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I him
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dislike
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think
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| He is
a bad man, so I think I dislike him. |
bļ-migm
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nakind
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I know
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that he is
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a prince.
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| (3)
Complex sentence with probability clause : |
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ayila
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dśmil
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yampė
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gyayė
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I
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better
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sit prob
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yesterday
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go+t
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| If
I were well, I would have come yesterday. |
