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Timeline for Using "的" with people

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Nov 2, 2016 at 11:05 comment added Tang Ho "No verb act on an object" would make an incomplete sentence. "addresses a second person" is one. May be I over complicated the answer. I could simply state " All possessive 的 can be omitted in a complete sentence, and a complete sentence must have a verb and object. An address to a second person is not a complete sentence, therefore, we cannot omit the possessive 的
Nov 2, 2016 at 8:39 comment added user6065 有某些用户只不过重复其以前说的话而这样做,就避免回答评论所提出的问题 some users evade issues raised in comments by repeating points made earlier
Nov 2, 2016 at 6:55 comment added Tang Ho It is in my answer- in the sentence 我(的)女儿打了人, 女儿 is a third person. Since there's no verb acting on 女儿, according to my answer, the possessive 的 should not be omitted. However, 我(的)女儿 in this sentence is the subject, not the of object. Therefore, the possessive 的 can still be omitted.
Nov 2, 2016 at 6:34 comment added user6065 other cases when "there is no verb acting on the object" , the new example is again as in Q, 我勇敢的女儿 addresses a second person
Nov 2, 2016 at 5:50 comment added Tang Ho You meant other cases that possessive 的 cannot be omitted? Most likely when it is actually adjective suffix 的, For example: 你好吗?我勇敢的女儿
Nov 2, 2016 at 5:31 comment added user6065 answer seems to mention only one case when "there is no verb acting on the object" ,namely that of the Q, in which it occurs as a form of address, are there other cases?
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Nov 1, 2016 at 13:19 vote accept Sarah Groß
Nov 1, 2016 at 12:53 history edited Tang Ho CC BY-SA 3.0
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Nov 1, 2016 at 12:22 history answered Tang Ho CC BY-SA 3.0