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APPENDIX U
INVENTORY NOUNS:
| rais (MA-personal class) | [president] |
| matembezi (MA class) | [visit] |
| rnwana (MU-WA class) | [offspring] |
| sehemu (N class) | [part] |
INVENTORY OF SHORT SENTENCES:
a.
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b.
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c. Rais (atafanya) matembezi.
[The President (will make) a visit.]
d .Rais ______________________ wanawe.
[The President ___________ his sons. ]
___________(wanaitwa) John na Eli.
___________(are called) John and Eli. ]
f.
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[The 'inventory of short sentences' has been left incomplete, to encourage users to begin making their own. Words in ( ) are common Swahili words which the student can be expected to know, but which do not occur in the story itself. ]
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