Chinese GCSE
Time Word Position
What Time Word Position means in Chinese GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definitions of Time Word Position
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In Chinese, words indicating time (yesterday, next year, in the future) must be placed at the beginning of the sentence or immediately after the subject, NEVER at the end.
The grammatical rule that time phrases (e.g., 昨天, 明天) must appear at the beginning of a sentence or immediately after the subject.
Topics that use Time Word Position
- Environmental issues (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Training (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Aspect Marker (动态助词)
- Connectives (连词)
- Justified Opinion
- Measure Word (量词)
- Measure Words (Classifiers)
- Radical (部首)
- Cognate/Loan Word
- Complex Conjunctions
Using Time Word Position in the exam
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