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Questions about the grammatical rules governing Chinese structure and composition.

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Difference in meaning based on position of modal verb

Here's a child's essay [1]: 今天是元宵节,妈妈说,在滨江公园有猜灯谜的活动。她还说,看花灯、猜灯谜、还有吃汤圆是元宵节的民俗。 晚上七点半,我和妈妈还有亲戚一起来到滨江公园,人真多,非常热闹!那里没有猜灯谜,我好失望。但是我们放了烟花,还放了孔明灯和河灯,真是太有趣了! 我觉得最有意思的是放孔明灯。我先在上面写了“希望我学习100分”,然后妈妈把蜡烛固定在孔明灯上,我 …
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Whom did this happen to? 发生 and friends in sentence

Beginning of an article on qiushibaike.com: 这是一件发生在楼主身上的糗事,事情是这样的: ... (the story is explained) My initial semi-literal translation: This embarrassing story happened to the OP (original post …
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Puzzling negation in a beginner's grammar book

From Jimmy Du's Essential Chinese, p. 46: I understand everything you say. 你说的我都懂。 I don't understand all they say. 他们说的我不是都懂。 Why is 不是 there in the second example, and not simply 不? I have only s …
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