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The non-finite forms are participles and two infinitives. | The non-finite forms are participles and two infinitives. | ||
The participle, which is available for all | The participle, which is available for all verbal categories, 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 first infinitive represents the verb's object. |
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