From 908669546c35a3e5c9a40cf548453ba63ceb16f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lingdocs <71590811+lingdocs@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 17:06:37 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] improve
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src/content/phrase-structure/vp.mdx | 5 +++--
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diff --git a/src/content/phrase-structure/vp.mdx b/src/content/phrase-structure/vp.mdx
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--- a/src/content/phrase-structure/vp.mdx
+++ b/src/content/phrase-structure/vp.mdx
@@ -262,8 +262,6 @@ For example if you say "I looked towards you":
This is **a transitive verb, but there's no spoken object in this phrase**. There's just a subject (I) and a verb (looked) and then a AP explaining the direction that I looked. (Some people might talk about there being an *indirect object* but we will never use that term when talking about Pashto, because it's super confusing. In Pashto there can only be one object in a phrase, and it's just a direct object.)
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Whenever this happens **the object is considered to be 3rd person masculine plural**. That's why the verb is conjugated as . This is a past tense transitive sentence and the verb is agreeing with the unspoken, ambiguous 3rd pers. masc. plural object/king of the sentence.
This is most probably often seen in phrases like
@@ -274,6 +272,9 @@ This is most probably often seen in phrases like
Here we're using the transitive verb but we don't have a specific object, so again, we pretend there's a 3rd pers. masc. plur. object that we're not mentioning.
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Then, things get a little weirder because there are a number of verbs that don't *seem* verb transitive but they actually are used as transitive verbs in Pashto. We'll call these **grammatically transitive** verbs. Some really common ones are:
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