chinese grammar powerppt

7/27/2019 Chinese Grammar Powerppt

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Wednesday

Grammar Review


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Chinese Word Order


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+Subject-Predicate Structure

Subject section + Predicate section

Please identify the predicate section in

each sentence belowQ

A

Q: A:

Q:

A:


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+Introducing Chinese Adverbial

DefinitionA word or phrase modifying or restricting the predicate is called anadverbial and the word it modifies is the head wordpredicate).For example:

What does an adverbialdo in Chinese?The adverbial is the pre-modifying element denoting the time,frequency, place, degree, manner, negation, etc. of the head word.

Thus adverbials could be time, frequency, place, degree, or

negation words.

What can serve as adverbials(in lesson 4)


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+The order of adverbs

used in succession

Two or more adverbs are often used insuccession as adverbial adjunct.

When thus used, attention should be paid totheir order: the modifying one always precedesthe modified one and this order can not bereversed.

Please translate the following sentences intoChinese:1. They are all students. We are all students, too.

2. We eat Chinese food very oftentoo.(hint: adverbials MUST precede the head predicate.)


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+General Word Order in Chinese

Subject +Adverbial + Verb +Object

1.///

2. / //3.//

4.////

Time, place, degree,

negation, etc.


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+Affirmative + negative

(A-not-A ) questions


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+A-not-A questions

Review

Change the statements below into

A-not-A questions

1.

2.

3.


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+A-not-A question

Use A-not-A question to ask your partner

Q:?

A: .(create your own answer).


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+A-not-A questions

Grammatical features

If there is an adverbial(such as , , or )before the predicate and

you want to keep it in thesentence,questionmust be used instead ofA-not-A structure.

If there is more than oneverb, the A-not-A formapplies to the first verb.

Please change the following

statements into questions:

1.2.

3.

4.


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+Sentences with verbal

constructions in series


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+Verbal constructions in series

A sentence, in which two or more verbs are used as the predicates of the

same subject, is called a sentence with verbal constructions in series.

Basic pattern:

Sub. + predicate 1 (Object 1) + predicate 2 (Object 2)


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Grammatical features 1: time adverb

An adverbial (if there is any) is normally placed

before the first predicate verb.


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Grammatical features 2: negation

The negative form is generally made by placing

the negative adverb or before the first

predicate.


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Grammatical features 3: A-not-A

A-not-A question structure only applies on the first

predicate.

(statement) (A-not-A question)


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+Exercise

Step 1:How do you say she wants to play ball in Chinese?

Step 2:practice the negative form for the sentence

Step 3:Apply the A-not-A rule to turn the statement (Shewants to play ball) into a question (Does she wantto play ball or not?).


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+(word order & subject-predicate structures)

Exercises

Workbook Dialogue Translation

P.74 #5


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+Differentiate Similar terms


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+ to like

would like; want to do something (desire)

feel, think (give opinions or physical feelings,hungry, hot, cold, etc.)

__________

__________

__________

__________


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Grammar in conversation

Workbook exercisep. 73 D4

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