Tham khảo tài liệu 'a comprehensive grammars phần 4', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 114 Chinese A Comprehensive Grammar huìyì jìxù le yĩ ge duõ xiáoshí The meeting continued for over an hour. women yào dẽng duõshăo shijian How long will we have to wait If the verb is a transitive verb with an inanimate object or an intransitive verb with an internal verb object structure the duration expression is positioned between the verb and the object. Grammatically the duration expression is now no longer a complement of the verb in question but an attributive to the noun object. Under such circumstances the attributive indicator w de may be optionally incorporated wó xué le liăng nián de zhõngwén I studied Chinese for two years. ic fiWT t women tiào le sãn ge xiăoshí de wii We danced for three hours. ScfllWT 4 Lt W 0 women liáo le yi ge wanshang de tiãn We chatted for a whole evening. If the object is a human or other animate being or is a pronoun the duration complement comes after the noun object jingcha pánwèn le nèi ge xiáotõu sân tiãn sãn yè The police interrogated that petty thief for three days and nights. xiào háng xùn le nèi ge tiảopí de xiảoxuésheng bàn ge zhõngtóu The headteacher gave a telling-off to that mischievous pupil for half an hour. bàba zài jingji shàng zhichi le wỗ liãng nián Father supported me financially for two years. However if the focus is divided between the object and the duration that is if the construction is bifocal the verb is repeated after the verb-object and the duration complement comes after the repeated verb o women tiàowủ jiù tiào le sãn ge xiăoshí We actually danced for three hours. Action Verbs and Time 115 n ft W sfc ĩiPT- l women guãng shì liáotiăn jiù liáo le yĩ ge wanshang We simply chatted the whole evening. xiaozhang xùn nèi ge tiăopí de xuésheng xùn le bàn ge zhõngtóu The headteacher gave a telling-off to that mischievous pupil for all of half an hour. bàba zài jlngji shàng zhichi wo zhichi le bang nián Father gave me financial support for a period of two years. A range of duration expressions is given .
