b'Whenever a sentence begins with a singular person subject, followed by a verb with a plural subject prefix you have the opening section of a collective construction, as the speaker is speaking of a group acting together, and so he breaks his complex opening subject noun phrase with the verb.Thus you will find: Tau matauna i-lo-sikasi-tai-yu la kwavaman that they went those two his wifewhere a sentence containing the complex noun phrase tau matauna kasitaiyu la kwava has been broken up by insertion of the verb between the nouns denoting the two members of the group.This is the usual shape of a collective construction.Sometimes the preposition kasitaiyu is replaced with deli or sola; but kasitaiyu or its inflecting variants are more precise, enabling the speaker to address the group (using kasi, or kami, or kada, or kama) and to state exactly how many people moved together (yu or tolu or vasi or lima).7.SVO and foregrounding The most common constituent order in Kiriwina sentences is SVOX, where X represents nominals marked for oblique case.However, the speaker may vary the order when he wishes to give some constituent prominence, by putting it first, or varying its position in some other way.If a time reference is his exciting reason for speaking, he may commence Lova lubulotoula goli lagisi minana It was at midnight yesterday that I saw her! 28'