to rule number one, the second to last vowel would bear the main stress (if the long vowel is not the main stress). And thirdly, words do not lose their normal stress when compounded with another word. Furthermore, monosyllabic grammatical morphemes are left unstressed. Types of sentences Similarly to English, for each clause in Tokelauan there is a predicate. There are five types of predicate including: verbal, locative, existential, possessive, and nominal. Each predicate is available for an interrogative and declarative statement, and can also have multiple predicates conjoined. Verbal Predicates -A verbal phrase will follow a verbal clause Example: Kua fano '[S/he] has gone.' (A type of verbal predicate is an evaluative predicate which can and usually does occur with no argument.) Locative Predicates -preposition i and a noun phrase following a tense-aspect particle Example: E i te faleha te faifeau 'The pastor is in the church.' Possessive pronouns Below is a table displaying the predicative possessive pronouns in the Tokelauan language. Shown below is a table showing Tokelauan premodifying possessive pronouns. Articles There are two articles that are used in the English language. These articles are the and a/an. The usage for the word the when speaking of a noun is strictly reserved for the case in which the receiver of the word should be aware of its context, or if said item has been referred to previously. This is because in English, the word the acts as what is known as a definite article, meaning that a defined object or person is being spoken of. However, in the case of definite article usage in Tokelauan language, if the speaker is speaking of an item in the same manner as the English languages uses the, they need not to have referred to it previously so long as the item is specific. The same can be said for the reference of singular being. Because of the difference in grammatical ruling, although the definite article in the Tokelauan language is te, it is very common for it to translate to the English indefinite article a. An indefinite article is used when there is no specification of the noun being referred to. The usage of the word he, the indefinite article in Tokelauan is 'any such item'. In negative statements the word he is used because that is where it is most often found, as well as when phrasing a question.