In this post we will look at conjunctions and examine some types of clause in Pali. This post follows on from earlier posts about relative clauses and also adverbs in Pali . In its simplest form a sentence is just a single clause. If you remember, a clause consists of a subject (noun phrase) and a verb (verb phrase) or to use different lingo, a subject and a predicate . Conjunctions can be used to join clauses to form more complex sentences. clause noun verb John shouted clause pronoun verb everybody waved conj and In English, Conjunctions are often grouped into three types: Coordinating conjunctions , used to join either words, phrases , or clauses . (e...
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