I give up !

The more I read, the more confused I become..

qama''e' qIppu'bogh ghaH

When you want to use neH, you have to attach it to the end of either a noun or a verb. You can use a noun phrase or pronoun instead of a noun. You can't stick the neH anywhere you like; it must go immediately after either a noun (or noun phrase or pronoun) or a verb.

So what are the nouns (or noun phrases or pronouns) or verbs in this example?

qama''e' noun
qIppu'bogh verb
ghaH pronoun
qama''e' qIppu'bogh ghaH noun phrase

You can put a neH immediately after any of these, and it will apply specifically to it. Applied to a noun, noun phrase, or pronoun, it means only that noun, noun phrase, or pronoun. Applied to a verb it means merely that verb.

qama''e' neH only the prisoner
qIppu'bogh neH merely hit
ghaH neH only him/her
qama''e' qIppu'bogh ghaH neH only the prisoner whom he/she hit

IN THE EXAMPLE WE'RE WORKING WITH, the following is NOT a noun (or noun phrase or pronoun) or verb: qama''e' qIppu'bogh. In some other example this would be a perfectly good noun phrase, but in this example it is only a fragment of the actual noun phrase qama''e' qIppu'bogh ghaH. So you can't put neH after qama''e' qIppu'bogh with the intention of it applying to that entire fragment.

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