  We aim to develop an English to Yoruba machine translation system which can
translate English verb phrase text to its Yoruba equivalent.Words from both
languages Source Language and Target Language were collected for the verb
phrase group in the home domain.The lexical translation is done by assigning
values of the matching word in the dictionary.The syntax of the two languages
was realized using Context-Free Grammar,we validated the rewrite rules with
finite state automata.The human evaluation method was used and expert fluency
scored.The evaluation shows the system performed better than that of sampled
Google translation with over 70 percent of the response matching that of the
system's output.
