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Questions about the grammatical rules governing Chinese structure and composition.

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Is 了 optional when a time word is present?

Just to expand on Hugh’s answer a bit. To understand what’s wrong with ‘我作天去商店.’ standing alone, we could translate it as ‘Yesterday I was going to the shop.’ Speaking English, if you said this and …
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Chinese countable/uncountable nouns (How do they work? Examples?)

Here’s how one grammar explains it. Yip and Rimmington’s grammar makes a distinction between classifiers and measure words. … Source: Yip and Rimmington, Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar, pp. 1-6. …
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Is “之” usually used as a possessive pronoun (attributive) in Classical Chinese?

之 is a common way to say ‘him/her/it’ in classical Chinese. It’s usually in the object position, not the subject one though: 殺之 ‘kills him’; 由之 ‘from it’. The use like modern Chinese 的 is differ …
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Does 你家孩子真多 follow the topic-comment pattern?

It’s a topic-comment structure, but exactly what the topic is is open to interpretation. It might be “你家”. In that case a rough English version would be: Your home – how many children there are …
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