Difference between revisions of "Conjunction"
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== Sources and further reading == | == Sources and further reading == | ||
Revision as of 02:59, 22 July 2011
Potential content
- Can indicate:
- Coordination
- Causality
- Condition
- Supposition
- Inference
- Transition
- Concession
- Alternative
- Enumeration
- Succession
- Progression
- Can't be used alone.
- Can't be reduplicated.
- Can't serve as any sentence element.
- Important conjunctions:
- 和
- 及
- 并且
- 还是
- 或者
- 而
- Different ways to say 'and' (depending on the context)
Sources and further reading
- Basic Patterns of Chinese Grammar (pp. 73 - 75)
Sources and further reading
- 外国人实用汉语语法(中英文对照) (pp. 123 - 131)
