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162 GRAMMAR A vednough why dos genev vi ? Will you come with me? Mednav. I will (yes). Ni vednav. I will not (no). A wrtg ev mos dhd Benzans ? Did he go to Pen- zance ? Gwrig. He did. Ni wrtg. He did not. 'Esta ajy ? Art thou at home ? Thoma. I am. Nynsov, or nynsoma, or (less cor- rectly), nag ov. I am not. In the case of a negative interrogative sentence the verb is immediately preceded by na = nt + a, whether it begins the sentence or is itself preceded by an inter- rogative conjunction. Thus : Na wrista gwelas ? Didst thou not see ? Fraga na wrista crejy ? Why didst thou not believe ? 3. DEPENDENT SENTENCES OR SUBORDINATE CLAUSES. These are of three kinds : 1. Those introduced by conjunctions, such as if, that, as, etc., or by a relative pronoun. 2. Those analogous to the " accusative with the infinitive " of Latin. 3. The absolute clause. i. The ordinary dependent clause introduced by a conjunction has its verb in the indicative, unless the so-called subjunctive is required to express uncertainty or contingency, without reference to any preceding conjunction. The verb is always in the simple inflected or inflected auxiliary form. The verb which follows the conjunction mar or mara, if, has its initial in the fourth state, and tre, tro, or dro, that, governs the second state. A dependent sentence may sometimes precede its principal sentence, as in English. A very good instance