9B · Linking sentences — how one thing leads to the next

9B · Linking sentences — how one thing leads to the next · a plain-language guide to Assyrian (Sureth) grammar

Drawn from Khan's syntax volume: Chapter 13 (how clauses follow each other, and the small words that join them), Chapter 14 (one clause inside another: "when", "until", "as if", "he said that", "I saw that", "if"), and §9.1 (when to say "a"). Chapter 9 already teaches the linker *kat and the basic "if". This chapter covers what comes next: the words that carry a story from one sentence to the next. Speaking value: HIGH. This is what separates listing sentences from telling something.*

Every Assyrian sentence in this chapter is one Khan recorded, from the folktales and accounts of village life in his texts volume, with his translation. None is composed. The code beside each one is his: A is a folktale, B an account of village life, then the text and paragraph. A 3:64 is folktale 3, paragraph 64. In the app, a citation with a ▶ plays those exact words in the teller's own voice, from the recording Khan transcribed. The whole texts are under Practice → Stories.

Grammar words (clause, conjunction, enclitic, indirect question, reported speech, condition, concessive) are explained where they first appear, and collected in "Grammar words in plain English."

How to read this chapter. Each section opens with the short version: the rule and a handful of examples. Under it, Go deeper folds away more examples and the cases that come up less often. Read the short versions first; open the folds when you want more.

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