Klallam Grammar

35 So Then ...

If you want to speak Klallam smoothly, you have to know pronunciation and grammar, of course. That is what we have focused on so far. But you also have to know how to put sentences together in a smooth narrative.

When anyone tells a story in English, you hear phrases like, ‘so then ...,’ ‘then ...,’ or ‘and so ....’ These little phrases serve to connect the sentences and make them into a smoothly flowing story instead of just a list of sentences.

If you have mastered the pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammatical material presented so far, you are ready to approach fluency in Klallam. In this section we look at some very common Klallam constructions that turn a list of sentences into a smoothly flowing story.
 

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