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 Serial verbs are a powerful construct in Toaq grammar.
-Any verb with a “property” or “event/proposition” slot at the end can essentially act as an auxiliary verb.
+Any verb with an “event/proposition”, “property”, or “relation” slot at the end can essentially act as an auxiliary verb. See [[Frame]] for how to recognize these slots.
-(These look like <code>satisfy property ___</code> and <code>___ to happen/be the case</code> in Toadua, respectively.)
 Here is a list of examples to demonstrate the sort of thing serial verbs let you express in Toaq.
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 {| class="wikitable"
-|+ Property slot: “merge-away”
+|+ Event/proposition slot: “merge-into”
+|-
+! le
+| it is probable that
+| ___
+|
+|-
+! guq
+|
+| ___
+| is underneath
+| ___
+|-
+! le guq
+| colspan=4 align=center style=color:green | ___ is probably underneath ___
+|}
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+ Property slot: “merge-away one”
 |-
 ! leo
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 ! noa lım
 | colspan=3 align=center style=color:green | ___ is difficult to understand.
-|}
-{| class="wikitable"
-|+ Event/proposition slot: “merge-into”
-|-
-! le
-| it is probable that
-| ___
-|
-|-
-! guq
-|
-| ___
-| is underneath
-| ___
-|-
-! le guq
-| colspan=4 align=center style=color:green | ___ is probably underneath ___
 |}