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In normal registers, syntactic pivoting (the practice of omitting a subject entirely in a clause when the previous clause has it as a subject) is disallowed for verbs: a pronoun can be used as a subject in the following clause if the previous clause has its antecedent as its subject. E.g. ''He will take my gift and go'' would be translated as ''Tobθjeo hu neo mid eos θeorθjeo hu''. However, it is used for adjectives: "Dark am I yet beautiful" can be translated as ''Moct na, a sumeon''. | In normal registers, syntactic pivoting (the practice of omitting a subject entirely in a clause when the previous clause has it as a subject) is disallowed for verbs: a pronoun can be used as a subject in the following clause if the previous clause has its antecedent as its subject. E.g. ''He will take my gift and go'' would be translated as ''Tobθjeo hu ljeo neo mid eos θeorθjeo hu''. However, it is used for adjectives: "Dark am I yet beautiful" can be translated as ''Moct na, a sumeon''. | ||
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