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Auxiliary verbs

How would we say:

'I help her paint the house.'

'I invite you to drink a beer.'

'I sing him to sleep.'

It seems like the "vo" construct should be usable here, but it might 
need extending. In our previous examples, the same person was the 
agent for both verbs:

"Go dorm vo sta cwaq."

Let's see:

"Da [paint] to dom vo go [help]."

"Bwa te biru vo go ciq."

"Da dorm vo go ziq."

???

I put the "vo" clause at the end because otherwise I don't know how 
to mark that it's ended and the primary verb clause has begun.

--Krawn.