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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/18/2017 8:56 AM, Lieven wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:7384cd03-e3d8-0592-b9da-e121376d5fa8@gmx.de">Am
18.08.2017 um 14:43 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">As soon as he
finishes his speech/passage, another person wants to ask him
"how do you know it (this fact) ?
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Would it be correct for him to say {chay' DaSov ?} And by the
use of the prefix {Da-} the {Sov} having as an elided object the
entire preceding speech/passage ?
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Good question. I have three answers to this, with grades of
correctness.
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a) I would accept {chay' DaSov} with no objection, but I have no
evidence this is correct.
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b) Taken the book, there is a way to refer to a previous sentence,
maybe {chay' 'e' DaSov}, but this maybe wrong.
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c) To be on a very clean grammatical track, I would suggest to say
what you even used in your question:
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{chay' ngoDvetlh DaSov?}
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"How do you know that fact?"
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<p>I find myself preferring <b>chay' bISov?</b><br>
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