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'She-goat is at the door.'

c. 

-

Lumbini Nepal-LOC be.PRES.3

'Lumbini is in Nepal.'

(iii)  'to be' is used to show the temporal constructions. For example:

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a. 



Tomorrow worship be-PRES

'There is worship tomorrow.'

b. 



Today hot be-PRES.3

'Today is hot.'

(iv)  'to be' is used for equative construction. For example:

Equative clauses are those which assert that a particular entity (the subject of the
clause) is identical to the entity specified in the predicate nominal (Payne1997:114).

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a. 



Hari one farmer be.PRES.3

'Hari is a farmer.'

b. 

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