Grammar

10 pages · 1,325 words

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Alphabetical Order and Punctuation

Letter/SymbolRomanizationPronunciationA aA/a/æ/"a" in bag, tattooB bB/b/b/"b" in buy, cabV vV/v/b/"b" in buy, cabC cC/c/…

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Alternative Letters

There are three pairs of letters in Celestial that have the same pronunciation, but different graphemes. These are B b B…

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Politeness in Celestial

Unlike English, Celestial has several formalities to remember when writing or speaking. These are important to not make…

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Cases in Celestial

As in English, Celestial has several cases that indicate the grammatical functions of a noun, proper noun, or pronoun. H…

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Noun and Proper Noun Declension

Example NominativeGenitiveSingular FormalSingular NeutralSingular CasualSingular IntimateSingular VulgarPlural FormalPlu…

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Pronoun Declension

First-Person Singular FormalNeutralCasualIntimateVulgarNominativeAccusativeReflexiveIndependent GenitiveDependent Geniti…

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Verbs in Celestial

Verb tenses and negation in Celestial are fairly straightforward, though there are still several tenses that do not exis…

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Verb Conjugation

Example SimpleDistantProgressivePerfectSubjunctiveImperativePast PositivePresent PositiveFuture PositiveEternal/Infinite…

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Prefixes

Celestial has a number of prefixes that can be attached to the beginning of a word, usually a noun, to imply something a…

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Sentence Structure

Subject/Object/Verb (as in English) Adjectives before nouns Adverbs before verbs "be" dropped before verb (e.g. "I am ru…

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