Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

With a verb or adjective that would normally require an indirect objectmarker, e.g. or (see 34(b)), the object marker is normallyomitted when a or is going to follow:Relativeclauses with I’m afraid he might run away I’m certain it’ll work outSome verbs and prepositions cannot take a clause beginning with .Instead, one has to use or , thus:We talked about the fact that the fighting is going on The Left is in favor of us withdrawing from all the territories I’m totally against them starting such a gimmickIn journalistic or formal Hebrew, does not mean ‘because’: is sometimes used in place of . This The paper reports that the two Seinfeld stars were recently sighted in Israel47 Relative clauses with ÓLRelative clauses (‘the guy who called, the room that I painted’) arecommonly introduced by the conjunction . It is always prefixed to thenext word. For the moment, regard as the equivalent of ‘who, which,that’: Here’s the bus that goes to Gilo? Where’s the roll I was eating?? Who’s the lady whom you met earlier?75