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--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, "HandyDad" <lsulky@r...> wrote: > --- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote: > > faq isn't the ind ob marker as such, it just means direction. Tho > it'll > > probably end up being -one- such marker. > > > > Go tir to hon (faq) zi. > > > > Go ziq ben zi. I sing to you. > > > > In the first case, faq can be omitted because it's understandable > without > > it. > > > > "Go ziq ben zi" opens up the next can of verbs: how to handle > auxiliary verbs. > > 'I sing to benefit you.' > 'I try to benefit you.' > 'I try to help you.' > 'I can help you.' > > Or did you mean for "ben", 'benefit', to be interpreted as a > preposition? > --K I just looked at the older Ceqli website and saw a discussion of prepositions as verbs. It says that really the prepositional phrase is essentially another verb, and the final verb is the main one. So would it be correct to say "Go ben ziq zi"? (Or does this say that I am singing you, as opposed to singing a song?) --K