Chinese grammar
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title:
Chinese grammar
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The grammar of Standard Chinese shares many features with other varieties of Chinese. The language almost entirely lacks inflection; words typically have only one grammatical form. Categories such as number and verb tense are often not expressed by grammatical means, but there are several particles that serve to express verbal aspect and, to some extent, mood. The basic word order is subject–verb–object (SVO), as in English. Otherwise, Chinese is chiefly a head-final language, meaning that modif
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Grammar of the Standard Chinese language
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2003-09-19T04:56:22Z
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2024-09-13T06:15:51Z
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