Benoît
object focus I have tried to change actor focused sentences to object focused sentences. Kumain ang bata ng lechon----------------> Kinain ng bata ang lechon Uminom ako ng pulang alak------------->Ininom ko ang pulang alak Bumabasa ako ng diyaryo-------------->Binabasa ko ang diyaryo. Nagdadala siya ng tsaa----------------->Dinadala niya ang tsaa Nagluluto si Anna ng isda may dayap.----------------->Niluluto ni Anna ang isda may dayap
Sep 18, 2014 10:03 AM
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Congratulations!  All your conversions are correct! 

 

Just a minor correction and a clarification:

 

Nagluluto si Anna ng isda na may dayap.----------------->Niluluto ni Anna ang isda na may dayap.  You may also so it as "isdang may dayap". 

Though "may dayap", as is, translates to "with lime", when the object it is modifying is indicated, which in this case is "fish", a linker/ligature (na/-n/-ng) would now be needed to form the phrase.   So, "fish with lime" would be "isda na/isdang may dayap", which translates to, "fish that has lime".

 

We use "bumabasa" more often to mean reading, in general.  So, "bumabasa ako ng diyaryo" would normally be taken to mean, "I read the newspaper".  If what we want to say is, "I am reading the newspaper", we would more often use "nagbabasa".  Although, just the same, it would convert to "binabasa".

September 18, 2014
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