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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/8/2018 1:13 PM, Daniel Dadap
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Before I ask my main question, I wanted to confirm my understanding of something:
My understanding of the behavior of {neH} with a sentence as object has always been that there is an implicit {'e'} in there, and it isn’t wrong to make it explicit. For example, to say “they want the children to read those books”, one would typically say:
{paqmeyvetlh laD puqpu' luneH}
But it wouldn’t be wrong to say:
{paqmeyvetlh laD puqpu' 'e' luneH}
Is my understanding accurate? Or does {neH} really not take the pronoun {'e'} as an object, not even invisibly? Or do we just not know enough to be certain one way or another?</pre>
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<p>The rules say "when the verb of the second sentence is neH want,
neither <b>'e'</b> nor <b>net</b> is used," not that the pronoun
is invisible or implicit. We're not given a great deal of theory
behind how it works, so it's possible there's something more
complex going on, but until we have information to the contrary,
you should assume it is what it says it is. Adding <b>'e'</b> or
<b>net</b> would be wrong.<br>
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<p>(The sole known exception is not a good data point, as it
involves one Klingon using another Klingon's sentence as the first
sentence in a sentence-as-object construction. It may be that in
such a case not having <i>something</i> there is too much. We
don't know how this exception works, so it's dangerous to base our
understanding on it.<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Regardless of the answer to the above, I was thinking recently about {neH} with SAO and an indefinite subject. Which of these is the right way to say “it is wanted that the children read those books”?
{paqmeyvetlh laD puqpu' net neH}
{paqmeyvetlh laD puqpu' neHlu'}
{paqmeyvetlh laD puqpu' 'e' neHlu'}</pre>
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<p>The second one. <b>paqmeyvetlh laD puqpu' neHlu'</b><i> One
wants the children to read those books.</i></p>
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