Verse:Mwail/Old Gloob: Difference between revisions
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Three types of participial clauses are used in Themsaran: attributive participle clauses, absolute participle clauses and adverbial participle clauses. All participles are negated with ''dār''. | Three types of participial clauses are used in Themsaran: attributive participle clauses, absolute participle clauses and adverbial participle clauses. All participles are negated with ''dār''. | ||
Attributive participial clauses are used as relative clauses whose subject is the head. They | Attributive participial clauses are used as relative clauses whose subject is the head. They take the same tenses as the finite relative clauses. Note that attributive participles take a possessive suffix; the possessor of a participle is the direct object if the participle is active, and is the agent if the participle is passive. | ||
In absolute participial clauses the participle is inflected into the predicative state. It can be used to give the general circumstances or purpose (with a future participle) of an event. Certain subordinating conjunctions may be used in tandem with such a participle as well. | In absolute participial clauses the participle is inflected into the predicative state. It can be used to give the general circumstances or purpose (with a future participle) of an event. Certain subordinating conjunctions may be used in tandem with such a participle as well. | ||