ENG 312.

1 (HMe)

Class work

1. Look at the following examples of Japanese sentences.

(1) Jakku-ga gakkoo-e ikimasu

Jack school to go

‘Jack goes to school’

(2) Kazuko-ga gakkoo-de eigo-o naratte imasu

Kazuko school at English learn be

‘Kazuko is learning English at school’

(3) Masuda-ga tegami-o kakimasu

Masuda letter write

‘Masuda writes a letter’

(4) Jon-ga shinbun-o yomimasu

John newspaper read

‘John reads a newspaper’

(i) What is the word order in these Japanese sentences (in terms of Subject, verb, object)?
(ii) Given the forms tabemashita (‘ate’), ringo (‘apple’) and –ni (‘in’), how would
you translate these two sentences: Jack ate an apple and John is in school?

2. Look at the following examples from the Persian language.

a) xaridam ‘I bought’

b) xaridi ‘you (singular) bought’

c) xarid ‘(he) bought’

d) naxaridam ‘I did not buy’

e) namixaridand ‘they were not buying’

f) naxaridim ‘we did not buy’

g) mixarid ‘(he) was buying’

h) mixaridid ‘you (plural) were buying’

[Note: xar= to buy; id= past tense marker]

(i) How would you say the following in Persian?

a. They were buying.

b. You (sing.) did not buy.

c. You (sing.) were buying.

(ii) Translate the following:

a) I b) they c) not d) we