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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/24/2023 7:00 AM, De'vID via
tlhIngan-Hol wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CA+7zAmNhJ+42AnLMgusw7kVKhtVuLLvSPG5=EuYHcB55rONdjQ@mail.gmail.com">But
are there any particular sticky points of grammar that you believe
need to be clarified?</blockquote>
<p>The noun suffix <b>-'e'</b> should be more clearly and
accurately explained. The existing TKD only calls it "topic," but
we know that when put on the object or subject of a "basic
sentence" it really means focus. The difference between topic and
focus should be explained.</p>
<p>Speaking of which, the matter of whether you can just throw noun<b>'e'</b>
at the front of any basic sentence to force contextualizing that
sentence in terms of <i>noun</i> should be addressed. If you can,
a simple example would suffice. If you can't, a word to that
effect should be mentioned.</p>
<p>Oh, and it would be really nice if we got an "official" name for
sentences built out of pronouns instead of verbs. Should they be
called copulas?</p>
<p>And there should be a note somewhere that when the rules talk
about basic "sentences," they really mean any subordinate clauses:
purpose clauses, relative clauses, and other subordinate clauses.
I can't count how many times someone has challenged me to prove
that you can put "sentence" conjunctions between subordinate
clauses — there are plenty of examples, but it gets tiresome to
show them over and over.<br>
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