Conjunction
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Notes
- 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:
- Different ways to say 'and' (depending on the context)
- Different ways to say 'if' (depending on the context)
- Different ways to say 'or' (depending on the context)
Sources and further reading
- A Practical Chinese Grammar For Foreigners (外国人实用汉语语法) (pp. 123-31)→buy
- Basic Patterns of Chinese Grammar (pp. 73-5) →buy
- Chinese: An Essential Grammar, Second Edition (pp. 14-5) →buy
- Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar: A Practical Guide (pp. 97-9) →buy
- Practicing HSK Grammar (语法精讲精炼) (pp. 95-120) →buy
- 实用汉语语法 (pp. 58-9) →buy
- Integrated Chinese: Level 2, Part 1 (pp. 52-3) →buy