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]. |