Exercise 8 in unit 15
Why doesn’t the translation of the above sentence mean ‘Maybe the baby eats because of the singing’? How is this sentence translated?
Solution
As this sentence claims the baby’s eating to be real, we need a modified object:
áv xmysì ganadnilsbvà Ol vìi.
áv xmysì ganadnilsbvà Ol vìi.
eat-fact1 baby-acc-dat2a sing-fact-certain-cons-1/2-fact-psu2 PIn−2-dat-dat3.