Example 16-142

demɔkrasi wì tiŋk se ì bi bad tin; nɔt no ì bi gud
demɔkrasi
democracy
1pl
tiŋk
think
se
comp
ì
3sg
bi
cop
bad
bad
tin;
thing
nɔt
neg
no
know
Ø
Ø
ì
3sg
bi
cop
gud
good
We thought that democracy was a bad thing. (We did) not know that it was good.
Comment:
A zero complementizer corresponding to se is rather marginal and examples are dubious because they occur in switches to the acrolect / Standard English (cf. the negator nɔt, otherwise not used in Ghanaian Pidgin English).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own fieldwork