is given as an object marker, most objects (other than personal pronouns) take no postposition, e.g. "The tiger ate the man" (tiger man ate). In addition to the simple postpositions there are more complex forms of the relational type that express more specific relationships. These are composed of a noun-like lexical form followed by a postposition, such as "inside", "out of". They are placed after a noun phrase, e.g. "inside the hole", or a postpositional phrase, e.g. "out of the pot" (literally: pot in out-from). Such expressions may also be used adverbially. The verb Overview The simplest structure for verb forms consists of these elements: an optional subject prefix (already discussed above under Pronouns) the verb stem either a tense/mood suffix (or zero) or a subordination marker e.g. "I live in Bluefields" (no subject prefix and no tense suffix), "He/She is going" (no subject prefix, present tense suffix), "With whom did you go?" (second person subject prefix, past tense suffix), "I will cook some meat" (first person subject prefix, future/irrealis suffix), "when they see the tiger" (third person plural subject prefix, "when" subordinator), "I am looking for meat to buy" (first person singular subject prefix, purpose subordinator). This basic structure may be expanded by adding other elements, including aspect markers (which come between the stem and the tense/mood suffix) and preverbs (which precede the subject prefix, if present). More complex meanings can be expressed through the use of serial verb constructions. Tense/mood and subordinator suffixes Most verb forms end in a suffix such as one of the following which either specifies a tense (or a mood) or else signals a subordinate clause: Use of one of the subordinator suffixes constitutes the main subordination strategy. Since these suffixes occupy the same place as the tense suffixes, the resulting subordinate clauses are tenseless, in this respect resembling non-finite clauses in European languages. Nonetheless, Rama verb forms with subordinators take subject prefixes under the same basic conditions as tensed ones, and in this way resemble finite forms. Examples with "come": "I am coming", "I came", "I will come", "for me to come", "when I come", "if I come" etc. In some cases the lack of any suffix signals a lack of marked tense or a habitual sense: compare "I am ready to go" (now) with "I live in the town". Imperatives in the second person singular are also suffixless, e.g. "Come!" One verb,