Comp和arative Study of the Differences1.pptVIP

Differences between English and Chinese grammatical subjects Grammatical subject In English, the subject of a English sentence has a close general relation to “what is being discusses”, the “theme” of the sentence with the nominal implication that something new (the predicate) is being said about a “subject” that has already been introduced in an earlier sentence. In Chinese, refers to the object of a statement located in front of predicate, and answer for questions of “who” or “what”. Usually noun, pronoun, numerals, quantifiers act as subjects in Chinese, and verb, adjective, or adj. phras