“ Can you walk, and do you not can go to Church?—I am not able to go the Church, because I am sick—Will you can endure it?—Do not pretend to be a learned man, because your own wit avails but little—Do you wish to work?—I wish to work and they let me not—Where is your wife?—I do not know—When did you see her?—I saw her at seven o'clock in the morning—Whom are you speaking to? ”

“ Fourth Lesson Of the pronouns.
The Bisaya pronouns are divided into personal, demonstrative, possessive and relative. The personal pronouns are:
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Declension of the personal pronouns
First Person
(1) Quitá is used when the speaker excludes not those, to whom he is speaking, and camé when he does.
2d. Person
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3d. Person
The pronoun Icao may be used indifferently before or after the verbs. ”

“ 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. ”

“ The impersonal verbs are those which express the atmospherical phenomena, and are only used in the third person singular, compounded with the particle naga or mi out of the roots init and Tugnao which are compounded with na. ”

“ Quini, refers to the persons or things nearest to the speaker: cana, to the persons or things nearest to the persons spoken to: cadto, is used to point out persons or things distant, both from the speaker and from the [23] person spoken to. ”

“ Sugtón ta ang atong mga magtoto-on, ug dili quitá magpacasaquit canila sa guihapon. ¿Onsa ba ang batasan sa acong anác canimo? Ma-ayo man ang batasan nia canaco, cay ma-ayo ang iyang batasan sa mga taong tanán, Ang iyang amahán nag-ngón cania sa masubsub: ang batasan sa ubán dili man cun dili usa ca aningal sa atong batasan; cun ma-ayo ang atong batasan canila, dili atong pa-abuton ang batasan nila nga maayo canato. ”

“ Naquita co, apan quinahanglan ang pagabli sa ventana, dili nga (labón) ablihán unta ang pultahán. Ang ventana dili ma-abli ug ma-ayo, busa guiablihán co ang ventana. Anus-a ba sirhán mo? Sirhán co igo nga ualáy asó untá. ¿May pulus ba (ang) sa pagsulti ca-ayo? Cun bu-ut quita magto-on ug usá ca pinolongan nga dili caogalingon, may pulus sa pagsulti ca-ayo. ¿Magsama ba ang pulus sa pagsulát ug sa pagsulti? May pulus pa sa pagsulti dili sa pagsulát, apan sa pagto-on ug usa ca pinolongan, quinahanglan ang pagsulát ug ang pagsulti. ¿May pulus ba sa pagsulát sa ngatanán nga guipamolong? ”

“ The others tenses of this conjugation, are formed by means of the adverbs Dinhi, Dihá. [39] and Didto, according to the persons, placing the person in ablative case immediately after the adverb or particle. ”

“ I love them also, and shall never say any thing against their reputation, I should love them still more (dacó pa ngani unta ang paghigugma co canila) if they did not make so much ceremony; but every man has his faults, aid my fault is to speak too much of their compliments. [93]
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Twenty Seventh Lesson Practical Sentences
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Exercise XXVII.
I suspected that you would be thirsty and your brother hungry ”

“ The water vat, Ang tadyao sa tubig.—The bottle of wine, Ang botella sa vino.
5.a When it refers to the property of any one, it is as follows.—John's hat, Ang calo ni Juan.
6.a The article sa is employed, when the [9] thing it refers to is determinate, but when it is indeterminate, the article ug must be used, as: Bring the money, Magdala ca sa sapi. Give me money, Taga-an mo acó ug salapi.
PLURAL.
1.a The plural is formed in Bisaya by placing mga after the article ang or sa. ”