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    Sentence structure in Chinese differs from English in some key ways. Chinese verbs are not inflected for tense or person and word order provides much of the information about who is performing what action. Questions in Chinese use the same word order as statements, with the question word placed before the questioned phrase. For example, to ask "What is your name?" in Chinese, the question word "什么" is placed before the noun "名字" as "你叫什么名字?".

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    Sentence structure in Chinese differs from English in some key ways. Chinese verbs are not inflected for tense or person and word order provides much of the information about who is performing what action. Questions in Chinese use the same word order as statements, with the question word placed before the questioned phrase. For example, to ask "What is your name?" in Chinese, the question word "什么" is placed before the noun "名字" as "你叫什么名字?".

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    Sentence Pattern: Subject + Verb + Question Word

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    Sentence structure in Chinese differs from English in some key ways. Chinese verbs are not inflected for tense or person and word order provides much of the information about who is performing what action. Questions in Chinese use the same word order as statements, with the question word placed before the questioned phrase. For example, to ask "What is your name?" in Chinese, the question word "什么" is placed before the noun "名字" as "你叫什么名字?".

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    j xng ji sho

    j xng gu tng

    Sentence for communication


    Unlike English, verbs in Chinese are not inflected. They are never affected by things such as time or person. This makes memorizing conjugation tables unnecessary. However, word order is very important in Chinese sentences. Word order is often the only indication in Chinese to tell who is doing what to whom. Word order can also vary between the two languages, especially with questions. In Chinese, the basic syntax of a question is the same as that of a statement, whereas in English it usually is not.

    Sentence pattern: Subject + verb + question word


    In Chinese, the words order in questions is identical to the order of phrases in statements. For example:

    jio

    shn me

    mng zi


    Subject Verb
    You

    Question Word
    what

    Noun
    name? / What is your name

    are called

    To answer the question:

    jio

    mi k


    Subject Verb
    I am called

    Noun
    Mike. / My name is Mike.

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