A grammar of the Malayan language, with an introduction and praxis..

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position, which answers the ends of regimen ; and consequently there
can be no arbitraiy dislocations to exercise skill in collecting the scattered
members of a sentence.
The necessity also for going into nuich detail in this place is dimi-
nished in consequence of most of those rules having been already noticed
in treating of the different parts of speech to which they have reference.
For the purpose, however, of bringing them into one point ofview, they
shall be here repeated with as much brevity as possible.
The nominative case, or noun or pronoun denoting the agent, in ge-
neral construction precedes the verb, and the noun or other word which
is the subject of the action or the object to or from which it is directed,
generally follows the verb, as ui^^j ^lo a^ kuda makan rumpiit a horse
eats grass, \\s~ ib' ^_jj diya tciu jiilan he knows the road, cu^];^ _.!^
i^ji^ raja bcr-angkat ka-negiJ the king proceeds to the city, ^^^ J ^^
c:_.£S,j njan turim deii langit rain descends from the sky.
But under certain circumstances, as when the verb is preceded by the
indefinite particle j de, the word denoting the agent is made tc follow,
and the subject to precede the particle and verb, as