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How Chinese puts its sentences together, a point at a time, each with examples to hear and read, and a few to try.

  1. 1 The basic sentence
    1. 1.1 Subject, verb, object
    2. 1.2 When comes before the verb
    3. 1.3 是, and words that describe
  2. 2 Questions
    1. 2.1 Yes or no: 吗Yes or no: 嗎
    2. 2.2 Question words stay where the answer goes
    3. 2.3 And you? 呢
    4. 2.4 This or that: 还是This or that: 還是