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billglover
Posted on: The Perfect Sandwich
February 25, 2011 at 6:31 AMtest
Posted on: The Perfect Sandwich
February 24, 2011 at 8:39 PM
In the expansion sentences we have this phrase:
你盐放得太多了。 (Nǐ yán fàng de tài duō le.)
Is this the 是...的... pattern? So is it a short form of:
你是盐放得太多了。 (Nǐ shì yán fàng de tài duō le.)
Posted on: The Perfect Sandwich
February 14, 2011 at 7:56 AM午餐肉是猫菜！
Posted on: Online Personality Test
February 11, 2011 at 7:57 AM谁可以把性格测试网站发给我？ （Sheí kěyǐ bǎ xìnggé cèshì wǎngzhàn fā gěi wǒ?）
Posted on: Chinese Baijiu and the Best of the Worst
February 10, 2011 at 7:34 PMAnd it is user: panda2 / Panda Beer who is to blame.
Posted on: Chinese Baijiu and the Best of the Worst
February 10, 2011 at 7:32 PMI'm seeing it as well:
Posted on: A Member of the 'Moonlight Clan'
December 1, 2010 at 6:40 PMI guess this is different to, but not entirely unrelated to the term "Moonlighting".
A wikipedia supplied definition: Moonlighting: To work at a secondary job, usually in the evening or during the night, often secretly, so that one doesn't have to pay tax on the extra money earned.
Posted on: How was your flight?
September 11, 2010 at 10:46 PMThanks, the 是。。。的。。。 lesson was perfect. Now to make some examples of my own.
Feature suggestion: related lessons. This Qing Wen lesson would have been a great follow on to the How Was Your Flight lesson.
Thanks all.
Posted on: How was your flight?
September 5, 2010 at 4:59 PMI'm struggling to understand the use of the 是……的…… construct used in this dialogue:
John suggests that it is used to give some indication of past facts, but I haven't been able to find or create other examples of how it can be used in this way.
My teacher seemed to suggest that 是……的…… was used to give emphasis, in this case it was a direct flight.
One alternative use appears to be when using proper names:
- 我手机是拼过的。
- 我电脑是联想集团的。
But both of these are present tense.
The closest example I've managed to come up with that seems to be similar to the one used in this dialogue is:
你是穿绿色衣服的吗？ (Nǐ shì chuān lǜsè yīfú de ma?)
My instinct would be to rearrange the order slightly to say:
你是穿绿色的衣服吗？ (Nǐ shì chuān lǜsè de yīfú ma?)
But I've been told that the 的 and the 吗 must come together.
Can anyone she any light on this construction, or give any additional examples of 是……的…… used in the way John describes?
Many thanks.
Posted on: The Perfect Sandwich
February 25, 2011 at 6:33 AMThanks Connie.
Interested to see this (and my comment below) appearing in the public comment stream. Should have been part of the teacher discussion.