Klallam Grammar

39 Because

In §38 you learned how to ask why. But too frequently in life it is more important to explain why. There are many ways to answer ‘why’ questions. In fact, some explanations may take an entire book. There are, however, a few basic patterns for short answers to ‘why’ questions.

English has a number of ways to give a short answer to a ‘why’ question. In English, for example, an answer to ‘Why did you go?’ could use the pattern ‘I went because I was tired’ or simply ‘Because I was tired.’ Or we could say ‘My reason for going was that I was tired’ or ‘I was tired was why I went.’

Klallam has similar patterns for short answers to ‘why’ questions. In this section you will learn two basic patterns that correspond pretty much to those English examples above.
 

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