SENĆOŦEN: A Grammar of the Saanich Language

51 So Then ...

To speak a language fluently, you have to know more than pronunciation and grammar. Those are important, and those are what this book as focused on so far. Beyond pronunciation and grammar, a fluent speaker knows 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. In this section we look at some very common SENĆOŦEN constructions that turn a list of sentences into a smoothly flowing story.
 

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