Grammar Handbook
Table of Contents
a. The vowels
b. The nasals
c. The consonants
d. Nasals before other consonants
a. Position of additional material
a. yes - no questions
b. negative questions
c. tag questions
d. tiaki
a. antai - who
b. antena - whose
a. teraa - what
b. raa - what, which?
c. iraua - how many?
d. Notes on asking 'what'
e. Notes on asking 'the how many-th'
a. nningai - when
b. iia - where
c. maiia - from where
d. bukin teraa - why
INTERROGATIVE REVIEW EXERCISES
a. ngaa - to be where
b. aera - to do what
c. uara - to be how
d. nakea - to go where
e. kangaa - to do how
f. rikea - to pass by where
g. iraanna - to do in what way
a. basic imperative formation
b. negative imperatives
c. Imperatives with an(i)
d. lengthened vowels
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1. formed with na
 a. first person plural
b. second person
c. negatives with na aki
2. with ke
3. taiaoka, butiiko
4. imperative verbs
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1. aki - not
2. tuai, tuai men - not yet, never
3. negative response to questions
a. aki
b. tiaki
c. akea
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1. Nominalization
2. Possession
3. Plurality
4. Gender
1. te
2. taian(i)
3. te naa n
4. Person Articles
EXERCISES
1. absence of te
2. presence of taian(i)
3. relative pronouns
4. demonstrative pronouns
5. Numbers
6. other quantity words
7. subject pronouns
8. objects
9. taan(i)
EXERCISES
1. -ua
2. 1-10
3. 10-100
4. 100-1,000
5. 1,000-1,000,000
6. over 1,000,000
7. years
8. how many?
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1. -man
2. ira-man
3. position of numerals
a. teuana
4. tabe
a. tatabe
5. other classifiers
a. note on teni and wani
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1. ordinals
2. used verbally
3. distributive
4. fractions
5. approximation
6. mathematics
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1. emphatic
2. subject
3. object
4. possessive
5. poss. suffix
6. relative
7. demonstrative
a. relative time
b. relative place
c. demonstrative time
d. demonstrative place
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a. reflexives
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1. body parts
2. family relationships
3. intimate possessions
4. states of mind and feelings
5. positional relationships
6. nouns formed from verbs
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a. Neuter demonstratives
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a. adjectives
b. apposition
c. person demonstratives + relatives
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a. intensification
b. comparison
c. superlative
d. equality
e. summary
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1. Tense
2. Agreement
3. Interrogative, Adverbial & Adjectival
4. Repeated Action
5. Passive
6. Transitive Formation
7. 'To be'
8. 'To have'
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1. Usually
2. Continuity
3. Adjectives
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1. Demonstrative Time Adverbs
2. Adverbial Expressions
3. Auxiliaries
4. Verbs
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1. Locative Adverbs
2. Prepositions
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1. i
2. irou
3. mai
4. man
5. n(i)
6. nako/nakon
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1. present/past indeterminate
2. a - immediate indeterminate
3. tabe n - continued action
4. nang(i) - immediate future
5. na - general future
6. a tib'a - immediate past
7. a tia n - completed past
8. additional auxiliaries
EXERCISES
1. joining noun phrases
2. joining sentenial structures
a. two verbs or adjectives
b. second sentence as object of verb
c. two simple sentences
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1. if
2. since, when
3. additional conjunctions
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