Tham khảo tài liệu 'mandarin chinese a functional reference grammar phần 10', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 604 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS 48 mãma chuãn duãn qunzi bu hào - kàn mother wear short skirt not good - look Mother doesn t look good in short skirts. 49 tă bu chĩ xĩguã tài kẽxĩ le 3sg not eat watermelon too sad CRS It s too bad s he doesn t eat watermelon. 50 nimen chũ 2 qu hão you PL exit - go good It would be good if you d go outside. 51 tãkão dì__-_yĩ míng 3sg take exam ORD - one name tài hão le too good CRS It s terrific that s he got the top honor in the exam. 52 tã duìdai shénme rén dõu hen gongjing 3sg treat what person all very respectful S He treats everyone very respectfully. CCertain yerb . that take a clause or a verb phrase as their subjects have the following curious property these verbs can also occur in second position directly following the subject or topic of the clause or in first position preceding the verb phrase. In each of the following examples the a and b forms have roughly the same meaning and can be considered to be optional variants the verb taking a verb phrase or a clause as its subject together with its modifiers is underlined twice 53 a. women jian we meet miàn hên nản - dé face very hard obtain It is rare that we see each other. SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS 605 54 b. a. women hẽn nán we very hard It s rare that we see each other. jiejue zhei solve this dé obtain jian meet miàn face ge went CL problem hên rỏngyi very easy It is very easy to solve this problem. b. zhèi ge wenti hẻn róngyi jiejue this - CL problem very easy solve It s very easy to solve this problem. 55 a. zhao gdngzuo bu tài róngyi seek work not too easy It is not very easy to find work. . bu tài róngyi zháo gongzuo not too easy seek work It s not very easy to find work. 56 a. qù go Guilin Guilin bu not kénẻng possible It is not possible to go to Guilin. b. bu kẽnéng qù Guilin not possible go Guilin It s not possible to go to Guilin. 606 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS Can a sentence contain both a clausal subject and a clausal direct object Here is
