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Introduction Guide to Pronunciation Dictionary Appendix A: Fauna Appendix B: Flora Appendix C: Body parts Appendix D: Months of the year Appendix E: Personal names
1.1 Consonants 1.2 Vowels 1.3 Stress rules
2.1 Declarative mood 2.2 Nonverbal sentences 2.3 Intransitive sentences 2.4 Transitive sentences 2.5 HAVE sentences 2.6 DO sentences
3.1 Yes/No questions 3.2 Alternative questions 3.3 Information questions
4.1 Positive imperative 4.2 Hortatory
5.1 Affirmation 5.2 Negation
7.1 Unspecified subject 7.2 Unspecified object 7.3 Reflexive/Passive 7.4 Reciprocal
8.1 Noun morphology 8.2 Verb morphology 8.3 Adjective morphology
9.1 Absolutive 9.2 Dual and plural pumber 9.3 Accusative 9.4 Genitive 9.5 Vocative
10.1 Locative 10.2 Allative 10.3 Instrumental 10.4 Partitive 10.5 Miscellaneous 10.6 Ordering
11.1 Demonstrative adjectives 11.2 Nonnumeric quantifiers 11.3 Numerals
12.1 Nominative pronouns 12.2 Accusative pronouns 12.3 Genitive pronouns 12.4 Coreferential pronouns
13.1 Stems 13.2 Instrumental prefixes 13.3 Temporal prefixes 13.4 Number agreement 13.5 Causative/Benefactive 13.6 Motion 13.7 Aspect
14.1 Temporal adverbs 14.2 Locative adverbs 14.3 Directional adverbs 14.4 Demonstrative adverbs
15.1 Coordination 15.2 Complement clauses 15.3 Relative clauses
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