Friday, December 10, 2010

Keeping Busy

I have been reading, writing and mixing basic Declarative Sentences. When I started learning Chinese I thought writing would be miserable. However, I am an artist and I love writing. In the past week I have probably wrote hundreds of sentences using basic nouns in Declarative Sentence format.

我有一只猫。这只猫是白色的。我有一只白色的猫。我的只猫是白色的。我的只猫有一个苹果。我的只白色的猫有一个苹果。我的只猫有一个红色的苹果。我的只白色的猫有一个红色的苹果。这只白色的猫是我的。这一红色的苹果是他的。

In English this means. I have a cat. The cat is white. I have a white cat. My cat is white. My cat has an apple. My white cat has an apple. My cat has a red apple. My white cat has a red apple. The white cat is mine. The red apple is his.

There really is no use for this little paragraph, but think of the possibilities. You can plug is any color and any noun. These 10 sentences can turn into 100's of sentences just by learning a few verbs.

You can also replace the Classifiers 只 and 个 with 些 and make the noun plural.

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