Tagalog StructuresThis text approaches the grammar of Tagalog through an examination of word formation, sentence construction, and sentence types. There is also a discussion of the phonology. Tagalog Structures is to be used in conjunction with Conversational Tagalog and Tagalog Dictionary. |
Contents
PHONOLOGY | 3 |
WORD FORMATION | 14 |
82 | 53 |
12 | 60 |
2 | 70 |
III | 77 |
IV | 115 |
EXPANSION OF SENTENCES | 124 |
COMPARATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS | 145 |
TOPICLESS SENTENCES IN TAGALOG | 160 |
EXCLAMATORY SENTENCES | 164 |
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action actor complement actor focus adjectival adjectives adobo adverbs alila Amerikano anak niya ang bata apat Ayaw ba ay babae bahay balut bata beautiful benefactive focus affix Bumili causative actor causative sentences child Completed Contemplated Incompleted consonant Examples existential focus verbs glottal stop goal complements goal focus affix guro Gusto Hindi Hindi ba Huwag Ikaw infinitive form inflected for aspect instrumental complement instrumental focus interrogative word ipang isda Kailangan Kanino kaniya kapatid kumain lalake lapis laruan linker locative complement locative focus affix lugaw mabait maganda magpa mang Maria mass nouns mayroon naman nanay Nasa nito Non-causative Note noun markers noun phrase numeral occur of/by pagkain papel particles Pedro Pilipino plural preceded prefix pronouns proper noun reduplicated relation markers root word siya siya nang syllable tag question Tagalog tinapay tindahan topic tumakbo umupo usually Verb Actor Verb base verb root verbal affix wala wash clothes