SW0 –  A Constructed Language

SW0 Examples

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Example Sentences

(0) "While the dog was angry at the cat, the other dog ate his food."

• Note that this could be past or future, since there's no absolute tense marked.

(1) "This coffee is hot enough to burn my mouth."

• This is an example of the satisfactive construction.
• Since time when is unspecified for burn, that clause is hypothetical.
• The verb here appears without an enclosure to act as a demonstrative.

(2) "The woman ate as many tomatoes as the man."

• This is an example of equative sentence.

(3) "I was told that you call this person Singing Fish."

• This is an example of a name construction as a complement clause.
• The verb here appears without an enclosure to act as a demonstrative.

(4) "I see that the 1st 3 books are the smallest."

• This uses 2 partitive constructions: an ordinal phrase and a superlative clause.

(5) "Are the boy and girl permitted to make a cherry pie?"

• This is an example of a polar question.
• It uses a conjunction, a determiner, and a deontic modal auxiliary.

(6) "The child and the elder must have each heard a bird."

• This uses the distributive, a conjunction, and an epistemic modal auxiliary.

(7) "The adult will ask her child what kind of food he's hungry for."

• This is an example of an embedded content question.
• It uses the similarity or kind connection point.

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