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 ===Relative clauses===
-*''moang'' is the relativizer. It is often not used with short verbal phrases such as adjectives.
+''moang'' is the relativizer. It is oftne dropped when the relative clause is short (most often with adjectives).
-*When the head becomes an oblique object, no resumptive pronoun is used.
-*English what-clauses are translated with ''fi moang...'' or ''foang...''
+When the head becomes an oblique object, no resumptive pronoun is used.
-**This is also used to translate ''the [adjective] one'' in English: ''Łen ctser ăyied ra, foang sim uy foang pday?'' 'Which box do you choose, the red one or the blue one?'
+English what-clauses are translated with ''fi moang...'' or ''foang...''
+This is also used to translate ''the [adjective] one'' in English:
+:'''''Łes tsănwer ăyied ra, foang sim uy foang pday?'''''
+:2SG.F choose box what, that_which red or that_which blue
+:''Which box do you choose, the red one or the blue one?''
 ===Exclamations===