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What can follow preposition ZAI (在)?

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What does dé (得) mean when it is used as a verb?

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What is the difference between 他跑得很慢 and 他跑得很慢了?

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What types of elements can be placed after the post-verbal complement marker DE (得)?

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How to express the concept of "since" in Chinese?

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What is the difference between adverbial modifiers (time/ location) in Chinese and English?

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How to express time phrases in Chinese: Why is the sentence *我吃早飯在八點 ungrammatical?

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Why can't frequency adverbs co-occur with guo (過), such as *他常常吃過牛排?

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What are the differences between the auxiliary verbs yào (要) and xiǎng (想)?

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How to account for the novel use of dǎ (打) in words such as 打貪, 打黑 and 打假?

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Why is 打毛衣 acceptable, while *打衣服 is not?

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What are the differences between the co-verbs gēn (跟) and duì (對)?

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動詞和主詞如何搭配：Either my brothers or my father is coming 為何動詞用 is？

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時間連接詞 when 和 while 的功能是否相同？

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如何使用逗號：He is strong, brave and, above all, honest 為何逗號會出現在 and 後面？

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在 "I have taught for three years." 這個完成貌句子中，講者在說話的當下還在教書嗎？

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has been 和 has been to 有何差異？

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Think 和 believe 有何不同？為何可以說 I believe him to be smart，但不能說 I think him to be smart？

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"He eats apples" 和 ""He would eat apples." 皆表達習慣事實，那麼兩者有何差異？

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Only 放在不同位置是否表達不同語意: He only came on Saturday 和 Only he came on Saturday 有何不同？

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