| CHAPTER 6 |
| SYNTAX |
| In this chapter on syntax the various constituents of the basic types of sentences such as declarative, Interrogative, Imperative and Exclamatory found in Urali are analysed and discussed. The word order and subject and predicate relationship are discussed separately. |
| The basic sentences used in Urali can broadly be grouped into two classes namely, |
| i) Major sentences, and |
| ii) Minor sentences |
| 6.1 Major Sentences |
| Major sentences are those utterances having fuller syntactic units which contain atleast the minimum number of phrases and can be analysed into smaller constitutents. |
| Major sentence types are further grouped into three sub sections, viz., |
| i) Simple sentences |
| ii) Complex sentences, and |
| iii) Compound sentences |
| 6.1.1 Simple Sentence |
| A simple sentence has only one subject and a predicate or it may consist of a subject, object and a verb which are noun and verb respectively or which may consist only of nouns in both the slots as in a nominal sentence. |
| We may have the simple sentences of Urali as consisting of two broad types : Nominal and Verbal types of sentences. |
| It should be noted here that each subtype can be expanded using various qualifiers either to the noun and/or to the verb and this would result in fairly long ‘simple’ sentences. It should also be noted that the mixing of the types is also possible. |
| The concord between the nominal subject and the verbal predicate is maintained with respect to the number, gender or person of the nominal. |
| ****1 In this chapter, the morphemic divisions of words are not indicated since it has been already explained in the chapters on morphology.***** |
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