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From :   Alissia Jackson

Date : 2009-01-08 / 10:07AM

Ni hao, benny!! I’m sorry haven’t been on in a while, but I am graduating this year and I have been super busy! I have question I kinda asked before. I was just wondering about sentence stucture in chinese. Like, " Ming bought a brand new car yestarday." “I like to eat dark chocolate.” I wanted to know because I was teaching my class Mandarin. I hope you can help me!! Thank you, Benny!! :)

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benny

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2009-01-08 / 11:27AM

Hi Alissia, long time no see.It’s good to know that you’re going to graduate this year.

Your sentences in Chinese are:

1. zuó tiān Míng mǎi le yí liàng xīn (de) chē. Or "Míng zuó tiān mǎi le yí liàng xīn (de) chē

2. wǒ xiǎng chī hēi qiǎo kè lì

The basic structure is “Subject + time + Verb + object” You can also put time words in the very beginning.

Benny



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shenbao

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 Isaac Ll yahoo.es 
2009-01-15 / 04:06PM

Hi!

About the sentence “I like to eat dark chocolate”, shouldn’t the mandarin way be with “xi huan” rather than “xiang”?

I’d choose “xiang” if the sentence was “I would like…”

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