Exercise VI

I have as much money as you—Have you as many friends as I?—We have less money than they—This book is small, that is smaller, and that is the smallest of all—This hat is large, but that is larger—Is your hat as large as mine? It is larger than yours—Do your children write as much as we?—They write more than you—My father has more silver than gold—Your ring is not so nice as my mother's—Your father is less wise than mine—I have less rice than coffee—Do you read as often as I?—Do you listen to what your brother tell you?—Yes, I listen to it—God is the best Father.

Seventh Lesson

Unitive particles.

Before coming to the end of this part of the nouns, we shall have a short speech about some ligaments, called unitive particles, which serve for uniting elegantly the nouns, pronouns and adjectives, and for joining together the sentences, and to give them a particular energy. These particles are the followings:

Nga.

l.a This particle (when it is not used as relative) serves to link the pronouns with the nouns and the adjectives.

When the preceding word ends by a vowel the letter a of nga, must be suppressed, joining ng to the vowel, as:

Pretty house.	Maanindut nga balay.
Good horse.	Maayong cabayo.

2.a Serves also for joining both the sentences and verbs with the adverbs, ex:

Come back early.	Bumalic cang masayó.
I doubt very much I may forgive him.	Malisud cahá nga pasaylo-an co sia [(V. Pag 8), 3.a Remark].

Ug.

It is employed instead of the article in the objective cases of indefinite objects, and in compounded sentences when are employed instead of objective case. It serves also to link the cardinal numbers: Ex:

Buy rice.	Pumalit ca ug bugás.
The work weakens me	Naluya acó ug pagbuhat.
All my neighbour's children died of plague.	Ang mga anac sa acong silingan nahurut ug camatay sa salot.
Seventeen.	Napolo ug pito.

Ca.

This particle links the cardinal numbers with the nouns: Ex.

Ten thousand.	Napolo ca libo.
My three horses were removed out of sight.	Nauala ang mga totolo ca cabayo naco.

Ing.

Serves for joining the sentences and the objective cases, when it is spoken in indeterminate sense.

There is not now who may seek.	Uala na ing macapatigayon.
Have I a knife?	¿Duna ba acó ing usá ca cuchillo?