George Boeree | Re: [europidgin] ordina de parolas

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Autor: George Boeree (“cgboeree”)
Tema: Re: [europidgin] ordina de parolas
Data: 2002-09-14 19:02
Mesaje: 44 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

Hi, Kevin.

**Un comensa vera bon!**

Here is a copy of the word order section of the LFN grammar.  It
is, of course, up to the group whether the europidgin word order follows
the LFN!

**Word order**

The usual, formal word order is **subject-verb-object**, e.g. El
diva esta, he or she said that.

      Pronoun objects //may// be placed
before the verb, e.g. Nos los videva = Nos videva los, we saw them.

      Questions //may// have the verb before
the subject, e.g. Parla tu Engles? = Tu Parla Engles? Do you
      speak English?

      Commands and requests //may// be formed
as verb-object, with the subject understood, e.g. Para! = Tu
      para! Stop!

      So-called zero-place verbs are used without
subject or object -- Pluveva, it rained.  The verb es, to
      be, is used in similar constructions
involving adjectives or nouns -- Es bon, it's good, okay.

**Noun phrases** are **article-noun-adjective**, e.g. la flor
bela, the pretty flower. Also treated as articles are
demonstratives, possessive pronouns, indefinites, and numbers.

      In combinations, articles, demonstratives,
and possessive pronouns precede indefinites and numbers,
      e.g. esta tre omes, these three men.

      Numbers following the noun are understood
to be ordinals, e.g. La om tre, the third man.

      The adjectives bon (good) and mal (bad)
//may// come just before the noun. Additional adjectives follow
      the noun, separated by commas or e (and).
Adjectives are normally preceded by modifying adverbs,
      e.g. la dona vera bela, the very pretty
woman.

**Prepositional phrases** are **preposition-noun phrase**, and
generally follow that which they modify, e.g. la mus en la casa, the mouse
in the house.

**Verb phrases** are **auxiliary-verb-adverb**, e.g. El vara pasear
pronto, he will go walking soon. The verb, when
preceded by an auxiliary, is in the infinitive form. Adverbs and adverbial
phrases may also be placed at the
beginning of a sentence.

kevinbsmith wrote:
>  me no saber como ordinar parolas entra
> un "sentence", per causa ce me
> saber sola linguas ce eser "head last".
>
> como alga person deber skriver "a very good start" per europidgin?
>
> "un comensa bon vera" ?
> "un comensa vera bon" ?
>
> e per ce rasona?
>
> Kevin
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C. George Boeree, PhD
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