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Bislama
Grammar
Quiz
Just
like any language, Bislama has its own
grammatical rules. If you don't follow
them, you'll produce a sentence that
sounds odd to speakers of the language.
On the basis of the description above,
say which of the following sentences
are OK in Bislama and which ones are
not. If the sentence is not
OK,
see if
you can change it to make it
acceptable.
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a)
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Kalomat
i bin no kam long
haos.
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'Kalomat
didn't come to the
house.'
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b)
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Lulu i
stap bonem haos blong
tija.
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'Lulu
is burning the teacher’s
house.'
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c)
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Lulu i
bae bonem ol haos blong ol
tija.
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'Lulu
will burn the teachers’
houses.'
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d)
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Ol bos
no i save ridim ol buk blong
Tomson.
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'The
bosses cannot read
Thompson’s
books.'
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e)
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Bae mi
no kukum raes.
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'I will
not cook rice.'
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