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 In English : I have to make model for science exhibition.
+'''Preference to the tone:'''
- '''Preference to the tone:'''
 Chinese language is a tone languge, unlike English. This means that it uses pitch for identifying the meaning of words.
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 ==Language1_and_Language2/Contrastive_grammar==
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 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ENGLISH AND CHINESE :

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+==Language1_and_Language2/Contrastive_grammar==
-==ENGLISH AND CHINESE/CONTRASTIVE LANGUAGE==
-DIFFERENCES:
+DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ENGLISH AND CHINESE :
+This page covers difference between English and Chinese.
 =='''''Alphabets :'''''==

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 =='''''Alphabets :'''''==
-Chinese language do not have alphabets but uses logographic symbols for its writing. In logographic system, symbols represent the word themselves and words are not made up of alphabetical system like English. Here are translations of A-Z in Chinese.
+Chinese language do not have alphabets but uses logographic symbols for its writing. In logographic system, symbols represent the word themselves and words are not made up of alphabetical system like English. Here is the comparison of between alphabets used in English and logographic symbols in Chinese .
 A	诶

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 (subject, adverbials, negative, auxiliary verb, verb, complement, object).
-An important rule In Chinese apart from word order the following makes useful guidelines - " Modifies preceed what they modify" while there is no such rule in English.
+An important rule In Chinese apart from word order the following makes useful guidelines - " Modifies preceed what they modify" while there is no such rule in English.Examples are below and modifiers are highlighted :
+那是小李的书。
-a
+Nà shì Xiǎolǐ de shū.
+That is '''Xiaoli’s''' book.
+那个很高的男人匆匆地走了。
+Nàge hěn gāo de nánrén cōngcōng de zǒule.
+The '''tall man''' left in a hurry.
+我不喜欢大的够。
+Wǒ bù xǐhuan dà de gòu.
+I don’t like '''big dogs.'''
 ==''''' Tenses:'''''==

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 ==''''Some other major Differences:'''''==
-''No nominative cases in Chinese :'' In Chinese, for example, I and me goes the same
+'''No nominative cases in Chinese :'''
- Similarly 'he' and 'him' also goes the same.
+In Chinese, for example, I and me goes the same
+Similarly 'he' and 'him' also goes the same.
 For example :
 I am his brother or Me is his brother goes the same
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 Here second sentence for each example will be considered wrong in English.
-''Chinese language requires classifiers :'' In Chinese language, classifiers are required to be counted. So when we have to specify a Amount of a countable noun classifiers have to be used while English does not use any classifiers.
+'''Chinese language requires classifiers :''' In Chinese language, classifiers are required to be counted. So when we have to specify a Amount of a countable noun classifiers have to be used while English does not use any classifiers.
 For example :
 --条 [條] tiáo for long, thin objects or animals (e.g. ropes, snakes or fish)
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 photographs, fur, etc.).
-''Order of questioning:''  Chinese question are asked like ' you say what? ' while in English the same question will be asked like 'What did you say?'
+'''Order of questioning:'''  Chinese question are asked like ' you say what? ' while in English the same question will be asked like 'What did you say?'
 Another example :
 我们 什么时候 吃 饭 ？
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 That is Xiaoli’s book.
-'' Chinese- a topic prominent language : ''  Chinese is topic-prominent as it often prefers to
+''' Chinese- a topic prominent language : '''  Chinese is topic-prominent as it often prefers to
 In Chinese : project I have already made
 In English : I have already made the project
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- ''Preference to the tone:''
+ '''Preference to the tone:'''
 Chinese language is a tone languge, unlike English. This means that it uses pitch for identifying the meaning of words.

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 In English much information is carried by the use of auxiliaries and by verb inflections: is/are/were, eat/eats/ate/eaten, etc. Chinese, on the other hand, is an uninflected language and conveys meaning through word order, adverbials or shared understanding of the context.
-''Modal verbs:'' English language uses modal verbs while in Chinese no modal verbs are used. This can result in them seeming peremptory when making requests, suggestions, etc.
+In English, for example, the verb "to walk" has many forms compared to its Chinese equivalent: "to walk" (infinitive), "walk, walks" (present), "walked" (simple past), "walking" (present participle), etc. Chinese only has one basic form, used for every person and tense; thus "zǒu" (走) can equal all these forms. ("tā zǒu" 他走: he walks, "nǐ zǒu" 你走: you walk, etc.) In other words, Chinese does not express these differences through inflectional suffixes.
-''Use of phrasal verbs:'' English, a number of short verbs combine with adverbs and preposition to form phrasal verbs which are commonly used in English. But in Chinese there is no use of phrasal verbs. ''Examples'' take on, give up etc. are not used in Chinese language.
+'''Coverbs'''
-''To be verb'does not exist in Chinese :''n Chinese, TO BE verb is not used unlike in English. Examples : In Chinese, the sentence would go like this: I go
+A special class of verbs called coverbs take the place of prepositions or postpositions in other languages. Sometimes, these coverbs can stand alone as a verb in its own right. One example is 给 (gěi), which can be used in both manners:
+Preposition-like usage:
+我给你打电话.
+（我給你打電話） (Wǒ gěi nǐ dǎ diànhuà.)
+(I'll give you a telephone call.)
+Verb:
+请给我一杯可乐.
+（請給我一杯可樂） (Qǐng gěi wǒ yī bēi kělè.)
+(Please give me a glass of cola.)
+'''Use of phrasal verbs:''' English, a number of short verbs combine with adverbs and preposition to form phrasal verbs which are commonly used in English. But in Chinese there is no use of phrasal verbs. ''Examples'' take on, give up etc. are not used in Chinese language.
+'''To be verb'does not exist in Chinese :'''n Chinese, TO BE verb is not used unlike in English. Examples : In Chinese, the sentence would go like this: I go
 I will happy
 Above sentence in English. I will be going happy

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 Tā bù hē kāfēi.
 She doesn’t drink coffee.
 '''Adverbial manner :'''
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 In Mandarin these nearly always come before the verb. This is different to English which tends to put them all over the place depending on the situation.
+他慢慢"wǒ bù chī jī" (我不吃鸡, literally: I not eat chicken) is equal to saying "I don't eat 地吃饭。
-他慢慢地吃饭。
 Tā màn man de chī fàn.
 He slowly eats.
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 Another difference between the two languages is that Chinese has a specific order for this extra information: time first, then manner and then place. This sequence is a general rule. Examples :
 我明天要去上海 Wǒ míngtiān yào qù shànghǎi. Here this sentence means : I tomorrow will go to Shangai.