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Posted on: Beards Are for Old Men

Ah, sorry, it's "liu2 hu2zi". :)

Posted on: Beards Are for Old Men

Xiao_liang,

"to grow a beard"， 中文可以说 “留胡子liu2 hui2zi”.

Posted on: Cold Weather Is Coming

你好dtchinese,

wear less --- 少穿点儿 shao3 chuan1 dian3r.

Posted on: Have you bought your Shanghai Expo ticket?

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Posted on: Have you bought your Shanghai Expo ticket?

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Posted on: Have you bought your Shanghai Expo ticket?

你好 shanghai_rocks,

Word order is perfect!  Just the word 过 has to be used after the verb 主办.

除了日本以外，其他的亚洲国家从来没主办过世博会。

Posted on: Have you bought your Shanghai Expo ticket?

The 的 has to be used in this situation. The dialouge question"在哪儿买的" could not be written as “在哪儿买了”.

:)

Posted on: Have you bought your Shanghai Expo ticket?

Regarding the sentence ""where did you buy your clothes?", you are right, it is  " "nǐ de yī fù shì zài năr maǐ de?". That is a perfect sentence!

Posted on: Have you bought your Shanghai Expo ticket?

Nihao Tim,

Where an event or action took place in the past, the 是 may be used in conjunction with 的 to highlight the adverbials or modifying elements in a sentence, e.g. time expressions; coverbal phrases indicating location, method or instrument; adverbal phrases of manner; or 'purpose' constructions beginning with 来 lai2 or 去qu4. It is as if a statement with the 是。。。的 construction represents an answer to a question about when, where, how, to what purpose, at the hands of whom, ect., an action took place. 是is placed immediately before the adverbial expression or verb followed by purpose expression/complement, and 的 generally comes at hte end of the sentence.

e.g.

1.我是昨天到上海的。wo3 shi4 zuo2tian1 dao4 Shanghai de. (I arrived in Shanghai yesterday.)

( note: the time word 昨天 is highlighted here.)

2.我是去买票的。wo3 shi4 qu4 mai3piao4 de. (I went to buy ticket.)

(note: the 'purpose' construcitons beginning with 去 （or 来）.)

In colloquial speech, 是 may often be omittted from the 是。。。的 structure.

The 是。。。的construction, though it refers to past events, may only be negated by 不 （not by 没有). 不comes before the 是.

e.g.  我不是来买票的。 wo3 bu2shi lai2 mai3piao4 de. (I've not come to buy ticket.)

Hope that makes sense! :)

Posted on: Have you bought your Shanghai Expo ticket?

大家好( da4jia1hao3--- hi everyone)!

Here are the websites where you can buy the 世博会门票:

http://www.bankcomm.com/BankCommSite/cn/index.html

http://www.bankcomm.com/BankCommSite/cn/index.html

http://ticket.chinamobile.com/

http://expo.118114.cn/besttone/portal/index/

This one is the offical website for the Expo,

http://www.expo2010.cn/sbpw/pwdt/gpfs.htm