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Rh Sentences like “It is Donal,” “It is the messenger,” &c., are translated. Here “” and “” are the grammatical predicates, and the second in each case is the subject.

In recent times we often find such sentences as “,” “,” &c., for “It is the master,” “It is the man,” in which the last, the subject of the sentence, is omitted.

Translation of the English Secondary Tenses.

The English Present Perfect Tense is translated by means of the Present Tense of the verb, followed by (or ) and the verbal noun. When comes immediately before the verbal noun, the latter will be in the genitive case; but when  is separated from the verbal noun by the object of the English verb, the verbal noun will be preceded by the preposition, and will be dative case.