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CHAPTER 5 30. (g) Questions based on even the simplest statements provide new complications. The interrogative words do not usually occur at the beginning of questions as they do in English.

The sentence particle, and not the verb, may indicate something about the time of an action.

The sentence particle may also show something about what the speaker expects from his hearers.

Knowing how to reply to a question depends on noticing what its structure was. Even as simple (to us) a concept as 'yes' has different translations after various kinds of question.