klingon_grammar1-10 Exercise 3: A Sentence of Your Own ======================================================= One possible answer: "If I can speak Klingon, I am a warrior." tlhIngan Hol vIjatlhlaHchugh, SuvwI' jIH. Clause 1: tlhIngan Hol vI- jatlh -laH -chugh object I->it speak can (group 5) if (group 9) "if I can speak Klingon" Clause 2: SuvwI' jIH warrior I noun + pronoun: "I am a warrior" (Chapter 5) Features used: 1. Verb prefix naming subject and object together (vI-, Chapter 4) 2. Object – verb order inside the clause (Chapter 5) 3. Suffix group 5, -laH (Chapter 6) 4. Group 9 suffix, -chugh, last in the verb (Chapters 7 and 9) 5. "To be" with noun + pronoun (Chapter 5) 6. The doer noun SuvwI' = suv + -wI' (Chapter 7) 7. The compound noun tlhIngan Hol (Chapter 3) Your own sentence will differ; check the prefix, the group order and that the group 9 suffix comes last.