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38LESSON 6
HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN TAMIL SENTENCES
This is the Most Important Chapter in Learning Tamil Properly
PLEASE BE REMINDED OF THE FOLLOWING BEFORE YOU BEGIN
i. When we speak or write, we use words. We use them in meaningful groups to form sentences.
Sometimes we form a compound sentence made up of two or more clauses. The order in which
we arrange the words in the clauses and sentences is the Syntax.
ii. The sentences are of four kinds :
(a) An Assertive sentence, that makes an Assertion, Declaration or a Statement.
(b) An Interrogative sentence, that asks a Question.
(c) An Imperative statement, that expresses a Request, an Order (request is a polite order).
(d) An Exclamatory sentence, that expresses a strong feeling.
iii. When we make a sentence, we :
(a) Mention a Person or a Thing and say something about him/her/it.
(b) The person or thing about which we say something, is the subject.
(c) What we say about him/her/it is the predicate.
iv. In Tamil, English, Hindi and Sanskrit sentences the Subject comes before the predicate.
However, in the imperative sentences we leave the subject out and understood.
v. Each sentence has some action. The action word is Verb. In Tamil, Hindi and Sanskrit
sentences we place the verb at the end of the sentence. Whereas, in English the verb comes
right after the subject.
The doer of the action is the Subject, which is normally the first word of the sentence.
Therefore, Tamil, Hindi and Sanskrit are SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) languages and English is
SVO language.
vi. The thing(s) or person(s) on which the verb (action) is performed is(are) the Object(s) in the
sentence.
vii.It is often said that “Tamil is totally independent original language and has no connection
with Sanskrit language in its origin and development.” The above study and the following
research on the common fibers in these two languages, however, suggests that one language
must have come from other, or, if not, influenced the other greatly, for sure. These large scale
similarities and interrelationships can not just be a coincidence, or could it?
vii. Again, please DO NOT begin this lesson without finishing previous lessons properly. Review this
lesson at least twice. Here we go ...
RangaRakes
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