Cantonese grammar
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Cantonese grammar
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Cantonese is an analytic language in which the arrangement of words in a sentence is important to its meaning. A basic sentence is in the form of SVO, i.e. a subject is followed by a verb then by an object, though this order is often violated because Cantonese is a topic-prominent language. Unlike synthetic languages, seldom do words indicate time, gender and number by inflection. Instead, these concepts are expressed through adverbs, aspect markers, and particles, or are deduced from the contex
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_grammar
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2005-09-05T17:01:55Z
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2024-09-10T15:46:52Z
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