Timeline for How mobile are adverbs in a Chinese sentence?
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| Aug 29, 2022 at 1:41 | comment | added | Argyll | So separating preposition vs adjective vs adverb are not always best.) | |
| Aug 29, 2022 at 1:41 | comment | added | Argyll | 这是显然错的 is not grammatical because 显然 does not modify 错的. In 显然这是错的, 显然 modifies 这是错的. In 这显然是错的, 显然 modifies 是 or 是错的. Thus the latter 2 are grammatical. Structures like 这是错的，很显然, as I argued in my answer, is what I would like to say as non-representative of grammatical structures -- and in any language. The same applies to 我跑向车站，健步如飞. (Indeed, the question on whether 健步如飞 is an adverb is insightful. adverb is not often considered standalone grammatical class in Chinese. Traditional grammatical classes are not universal anyway. | |
| Aug 28, 2022 at 13:31 | comment | added | PdotWang | 快速地我跑向车站 sounds like a poem. 轻轻地，我将离开你。 | |
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| S Aug 28, 2022 at 5:56 | history | answered | xXF | CC BY-SA 4.0 |