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Rh POSITION OF WORDS WITH

The predicate of the sentence always follows : as,

Sentences of Identification—e.g., Conn is the king—form an apparent exception. The fact is that in this sentence either the word “Conn” or “the king” may be the logical predicate. In English “king” is the grammatical predicate, but in Irish it is the grammatical subject, and “Conn” is the grammatical predicate. Hence the sentence will be,

In such sentences, when two nouns or a pronoun and noun are connected by the verb, as a general rule, the more particular and individual of the two is made grammatical predicate in Irish. The converse usually holds in English. For instance, we say in English “I am the messenger,” but in Irish (lit. “the messenger is I”). Likewise with the following:—