"sentence" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The verb generally agrees with the subject in both transitive and intransitive sentences.
- Pohnpeian transitive sentences contain up to three noun phrases.
- Subjects of transitive sentences, however, carry a different marking to indicate that they belong to a separate case, known as the ergative.
- Meanwhile, agents of transitive sentences take the ergative suffix, -mu.
- Here are three sentence types, each containing a single word: a nominal predicate, an intransitive sentence, and a transitive sentence.
- In contrast, a transitive sentence requires the subject and object to be non-identical (e.g., "The man hit John").
- The accusative marks the direct object of a transitive verb in a transitive sentence.
- The executor in a transitive sentence always precedes the experiencer.
- If a noun is the subject of a transitive sentence (meaning that the verb has an object) it receives the ergative suffix.
- Pronouns do not receive ergative suffixes and take no ending as the subject of a transitive sentence.
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