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ghItlhpu' mayqel, jatlh:</div>
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> <span>If we have a simple sao, then there is no confusion in omitting punctuation</span></div>
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<span>> before the {'e'}.<br>
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<div>> <span>But if we have an adverb, or a time stamp before the {'e'}, then wouldn't it be</span></div>
<div><span>> clearer if we added some punctuation before that adverb or time stamp ?</span></div>
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<div><span>Why should it? Adverbs and time stamps appear invariably (with the sole exceptions of {neH} and {jay'}) at the beginning of clauses. If you're reading a sentence and you run into a time stamp or an adverb that isn't {neH} or {jay'}, then you already
know you've reached a new clause, in just the same way as you know you've reached a new clause when you hit {'e'}.</span></div>
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<div><span>One could probably concoct an example of a construction where a noun phrase is ambiguously acting as either a subject of the subordinated clause or as a time stamp of the {'e'}-clause, but I imagine examples where genuine ambiguity arises would be
very few and far between.<br>
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<div><span>QeS 'utlh<br>
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