Sotho Parts of Speech - Conjunctives

Conjunctives

Conjunctives introduce or join up sentences.

Sesotho conjunctives may be studied from two aspects: form and function.

There are four forms of conjunctives:

1. Primitive conjunctives, which we may call conjunctions,
2. Other parts of speech unchanged in form but used as conjunctives,
3. Inflected forms of conjunctives and other parts of speech, and
4. Compounds.

There are four functions of conjunctives:

1. Non-influencing conjunctives which don't affect the grammatical mood of the succeeding predicate,
2. Conjunctives which govern the indicative mood,
3. Conjunctives which govern the subjunctive mood, and
4. Conjunctives which govern the participial sub-mood.