Phi practice Punctuation you can hear

Reading 12 of 13

Part 11

Exercises

Answers follow at the end. For each judgement, identify the grammatical distinction before checking the form.

Part AChoose the Phi resource

For each English line, decide which Phi form carries the relevant work and then render the sentence.

  1. "Are you coming?"
  2. "Friend, sit."
  3. The elder said, "The earth receives all."
  4. "If it rains, we sit at home."
  5. "trees, flowers, and grass"

Part BRepair the page

Each line has either an English mark inside Phi, a capital, or a missing lexical boundary. Repair it and identify the error.

  1. wa thia shua?
  2. kona lopia, kia.
  3. Ne siora shua.
  4. su theula towe nai!
  5. mia tha shia shua sano.

Part CTranslate the construction

  1. sulae asked, "Is the well water warm?"
  2. "Child, what do you see?"
  3. "Although it rained, the flowers grow."

Part DChoose the interjection

Give the one interjection each moment calls for.

  1. The guest's story lands its quiet joke.
  2. A pot lid clatters toward the sleeping baby's room.
  3. You finally understand why the bread would not rise.
  4. Someone missed your sentence and needs it again; what do they say?
  5. The last basket reaches the top of the stairs.
  6. A neighbor shows you the scarf they finished weaving.

Part EThe marks with no counterpart

Say what each English habit becomes in Phi.

  1. "One thing matters here: the water."
  2. "The path is long; the evening is warm."
  3. "She was, well, um, she was thinking."
  4. "Everyone helped (even the cat, for once)."

Part FTest spoken recovery

Compose a grammatical message with a direct wa question inside sha ... sho and a name marked with ne. Add direct address with kona, a su wish, one interjection, and one discourse marker. With a partner, or after leaving your own recording long enough for the wording to fade, transcribe the message from speech. Compare the lexical forms and the periods as separate results, then try the far room.

Check your workAnswer key

AnswersPart A

  1. wa thia shua. wa asks about the whole proposition.
  2. kona melu. no meilo. The vocative is extra-clausal, and no marks the directive.
  3. wheo sha muila theula howela sho to haolu. The quote is exact Phi wording, and past to belongs to the final haolu.
  4. lu pheralu lepa. lo mia mua womu meilo. The lu condition is a complete sentence before its consequence.
  5. shiro nela peloru nela whelina. nela appears at every list boundary.

AnswersPart B

  1. wa thia shua. The opening particle already marks the direct yes-or-no question.
  2. kona lopia. kia. The vocative is its own utterance, not a comma phrase inside the following one.
  3. ne siora shua. Phi sentence starts and Phi-form names stay lowercase.
  4. su theula towe nai. The optative marks the wish; Phi has no exclamation mark.
  5. mia tha shia shua tho sano. Required tho closes the embedded proposition before sano.

AnswersPart C

  1. ne sulae sha wa phitura phialu sulae nai sho to thilou. Outside the quote, ne makes the first sulae a name. Inside it, bare sulae is the predicate warm. thilou names the act of inquiry.
  2. kona lopia. thia hina nila. kona addresses the child, while hina occupies the object position that the answer will fill.
  3. shai pheralu to nai lo peloru thuroa. shai opens the concession, and its past predicate to nai completes before the main clause begins.

AnswersPart D

  1. pio. A small laugh has its own word; the joke was quiet, and so is this.
  2. teo. The attention matters because of danger; hei would only ask for eyes.
  3. nea. The knot came loose; nothing exceeded expectation.
  4. hao. It asks for the sentence again and apologizes for nothing.
  5. phuo. The effort is over; hoi belonged on the stairs.
  6. lua. The admiration is for the scarf; mea would thank a giver.

AnswersPart E

  1. No word: state the claim, then state the water's part, and the sentence order carries the colon's promise; shekoi may open the second sentence when the narrowing should be audible.
  2. Two periods, or nela between the clauses; the semicolon's half-boundary has no Phi weight to borrow.
  3. nuo. as its own utterance, then the sentence, whole, on the second try; shorela opens a rewording when the first attempt already stands.
  4. The aside becomes its own sentence, opened by phisu if it is offered as an instance or shekoi if it names the surprising case; nothing about the cat needs to whisper.

AnswersPart F

There is no single correct message. Check the direct question and its matched quotation frame first. Then check that ne precedes its name atom or honorific chain, kona begins a separate vocative utterance, su opens a wish, the interjection means what its entry says, and the discourse marker proposes a relation the next sentence honors. A mismatch in period placement belongs in the written-boundary result rather than being hidden among lexical errors.