{"id":50,"date":"2008-06-26T16:14:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T21:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2009-10-29T17:47:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T23:47:39","slug":"sentence-structure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/sentence-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentence Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sentence structure<\/strong> refers to the many ways that different parts of speech are put together to create semantic meaning. One mark of fluency and proficiency is how naturally one constructs original sentences in the target language. <\/p>\n

Fortunately in Persian, the sentence structure<\/strong> is generally very regular. Under normal circumstances the verb is always placed at the end of the sentence. Writing from right to left, the basic sentence structure in Persian is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nverb<\/strong><\/td>\nsubject<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I go<\/td>\nman miravam<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources Sentence_Structure-12a]\u0645\u06cc\u200c\u0631\u0648\u0645[\/tag]<\/td>\n[tag resources Sentence_Structure-12b]\u0645\u0646[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
he\/she\/it sat (down)<\/td>\nu ne\u0161ast<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources Sentence_Structure-13a]\u0646\u0634\u0633\u062a[\/tag]<\/td>\n[tag resources Sentence_Structure-13b]\u0627\u0648[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

More complex sentences may be constructed according to the following structure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
verb<\/strong><\/td>\nobject<\/strong><\/td>\npreposition<\/strong><\/td>\nmodifier<\/strong><\/td>\nsubject<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[tag resources Sentence_Structure-21a]\u0631\u0641\u062a\u0645[\/tag]<\/td>\n[tag resources Sentence_Structure-21b]\u0633\u06cc\u0646\u0645\u0627[\/tag]<\/td>\n[tag resources Sentence_Structure-21c]\u0628\u0647[\/tag]<\/td>\n[tag resources Sentence_Structure-21d]\u062f\u06cc\u0631\u0648\u0632[\/tag]<\/td>\n[tag resources Sentence_Structure-21e]\u0645\u0646[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
[tag resources Sentence_Structure-39a].\u0645\u0646 \u062f\u06cc\u0631\u0648\u0632 \u0628\u0647 \u0633\u06cc\u0646\u0645\u0627 \u0631\u0641\u062a\u0645[\/tag]
\nman diruz be sinam\u0101 raftam<\/em>
\n“I went to the movies yesterday.”<\/p>\n

[tag resources Sentence_Structure-63a].\u0627\u06cc\u0646 \u0645\u0631\u062f \u0645\u0639\u0644\u0651\u0645 \u0645\u0627\u0633\u062a[\/tag]
\nin mard mo’allem-e m\u0101st<\/em>
\n“This man is our teacher.”<\/p>\n

[tag resources Sentence_Structure-68a].\u062e\u0627\u0646\u0647\u0654 \u0645\u0627 \u062e\u06cc\u0644\u06cc \u0628\u0632\u0631\u06af \u0627\u0633\u062a[\/tag]
\nx\u0101ne-ye m\u0101 xeyli bozorg ast<\/em>
\n“Our house is very large\/big.”<\/p>\n

[tag resources Sentence_Structure-70a].\u0645\u0646 \u06cc\u06a9 \u062e\u0648\u0627\u0647\u0631 \u0628\u0632\u0631\u06af\u062a\u0631 \u062f\u0627\u0631\u0645[\/tag]
\nman yek x\u0101har-e bozorgtar d\u0101ram<\/em>
\n“I have an older sister.”<\/h5>\n

In Persian personal endings are used to mark the person, the number, and the tense. Therefore, from the technical point of view, a verb and the appropriate personal ending may be considered a complete sentence, or at least a clause. For instance, in the clause \u0645\u06cc\u200c\u0631\u0648\u0645 mi ravam<\/em> \u2018I go, I am going, I shall go\u2019 (in which the subject pronoun \u0645\u0646 man<\/em> \u2018I\u2019 has been elided, and the personal ending \u0645 represents the person\/subject), the two elements of subject and verb are present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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