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Grammar: verbs, aspect and complements
Chinese (Second Language, Group I) · Chapter 5 · 4. Grammar
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- Modal verbs: hui, neng, keyi, yao, xiang, yinggai
- Aspect: le (completed action and change), guo (past experience), zhe (continuing state); zai / zhengzai (action in progress)
- The shi ... de construction for the time, place or manner of a past action
- Complements of result, direction and degree; the three particles pronounced de (structural, adverbial, complement)
- The ba construction and the bei passive