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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/3/2016 11:28 AM, mayqel qunenoS
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<pre wrap="">I remember reading somewhere (I think in the wiki), that sentence as
subject is not allowed.
However, I can't understand how someone can use a sentence as subject
in the first place.
Can someone write an example of a sentence as subject, so that I will
understand, what someone is supposed to avoid ?
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<p>An example, in English, of something that could be considered
sentence-as-subject:</p>
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<p><i>The Klingon killing the Ferengi is good.<br>
It is good that the Klingon killed the Ferengi.</i><br>
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<p>Here, <i>it</i> stands in for the postcedent <i>the Klingon
killed the Ferengi.</i> In Klingon, you cannot say <b>*QaQ
verengan HoHpu' tlhIngan </b>or <b>*</b><b>verengan HoHpu'
tlhIngan </b><b>QaQ 'e'.</b> You must recast. Perhaps <b>verengan
HoHpu'mo' tlhIngan QaQ ghu'</b><i><b> </b>because the Klingon
killed the Ferengi the situation is good</i> or <b>QaQ tlhIngan
verengan HoHpu'ghach</b><i> the Klingon's Ferengi-killing is
good</i> (this latter might be hard to parse).<br>
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