In Afrikaans, auxiliary verbs are indispensable for crafting intricate tenses, conveying diverse moods, and shaping sentence structure and meaning. The primary auxiliary verbs are 'het' (to have) and 'sal' (will), each playing a distinct role in tense formation. ...
Use this Not this Use this Not this English example Target example Select Click Kies Klik Keep paragraphs short and sentence structure simple—aim for one verb per sentence. Read text aloud and imagine it spoken by a screen reader. Spell out words like en, plus, en omtrent. Screen readers ...
Predictions for the well-formedness of code-switched constructions were informed by data elicited from thirty fluently bilingual participants by means of relative judgements of visually-presented code-switched sentences and auditorily-presented code-switched utterances, and a sentence construction task. ...
Complex sentence structure, deep embedding and a change in the condition type often lead to placement of the subordinate clause near the end of the sentence. Associated adverbs change the meaning of the subordinate clause and the q,p order is semantically motivated in those cases. In the data ...
Sentence type is included because of its effect on the alternation of will and be going to/gonna in English, where be going to/gonna is favored with both interrogative and negative sentences (Tagliamonte et al. 2014). Regarding the subject, number is not included because Afrikaans has no ...