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* imperatives in indirect speech, with a complementizer; | * imperatives in indirect speech, with a complementizer; | ||
* purpose clauses, as relative clauses or as subordinated or coordinated clauses. | * purpose clauses, as relative clauses or as subordinated or coordinated clauses. | ||
=====Non-finite forms===== | |||
The non-finite forms are participles and two infinitives. | |||
The participle, which is available for all tenses and aspects, is used to construct VOS clauses, where O and S are full noun phrases, or O is a noun and S is a third- or fourth-person pronoun. VOS sentences lend more emphasis to the predicate than the neutral VSO. | |||
The possessor of the first infinitive represents the verb's object. | |||
The possessor of the second infinitive represents the verb's subject. | |||
====Conjugation of the active==== | ====Conjugation of the active==== |
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