1. Constituent Structure of Sentences – 句子的成分 1). Subject – 主语 eg. 我是个初中生. eg. 正月十五是元宵节. 2). Predicate – 谓语 eg. 我们下午去书店. eg. 春天来了. 3). Object – 宾语 eg. 妈妈在打电话. eg. 你打扫卫生吧. 4). Attribute – 定语 eg. 今天的饭太丰盛啦! eg. 这是我的朋友. 5). Adverbial modifier – 状语 eg. 他到底来不来? eg. 在这个领域, 他是专家. 6). Complement – 补语 – a [...]
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Chinese compound: the definition, structures and its types
1. What is Compound Words occur together based on certain grammatical rules and meaning make compounds (词组 or 短语), such as ‘阳光灿烂’ and ‘好极了’. 2. Compound Structure According to the types of the words which make a compoun, a compound can be a combination of full words or full words and empty words. 1). Compounds [...]
Chinese Word definition, structures and its types
1. What is Word Word (词) is the smallest grammatical unit which can use independently. ‘Use Independetly’ means it can either make a sentence by itself or work independently as a structural constituent of a sentence. For example, in this sentence ‘他又来了.’ ‘他’, ‘又’, ‘来’ and ‘了’ call all use independently, they are all words. [...]
Chinese Morpheme knowledge
1. What is Morpheme Morpheme (语素), one of the basic units of word structure in Chinese grammar, is the smallest combination of meaning and phonetic sound in Chinese language. For example, ‘书’ (book) is a morpheme, its phonetic sound is ‘shū’ and its meaning is ‘成本的著作’; ‘马虎’ is also a morpheme, its phonetic sound is [...]
Basic knowdage of Chinese Grammar
1. Basic Units of Chinese Grammar Basic units of Chinese are Morpheme, Word, Compound and Sentence. 1). Morpheme – 语素. The smallest meaningful unit of Chinese language. Each morpheme most of time has one syllable, such as ‘人’ and ‘好’, and a few has more syllables, such as ‘巧克力’ and 葡萄’. 2). Word – 词. [...]