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## Independent Clause Structure
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Most of the time L'ewa sentences have only one clause. This can be anything from
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a single verb to a subject, verb and object. However, sometimes more information
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is needed. Consider this sentence:
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The dog which is blue is large.
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This kind of a relative clause would be denoted using `hoi`, which would make
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the sentence roughly the following in L'ewa:
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le wufra hoi blanu xi brado.
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The particle `xi` is needed here in order to make it explicit that the subject
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noun-phrase has ended.
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Similarly, an incidental relative clause is done with with `joi`:
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le wufra joi blanu ke brado
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the dog, which by the way is blue, is big.
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